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THE 

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 

/OF THE 

OF BOSTON, 

(INSTITUTED 1737"; ) 
ADOPTED MARCH 17th, 1876. 

WITH A 

LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS, 

AND MANY INTERESTING EXTRACTS FROM THE ORIGINAL 

RECORDS OF THE SOCIETY, — TOGETHER WITH 

THE ACT OF INCORPORATION, 

AND 

JAMES BOYD'S CENTENNIAL ANN17EESAEY ADDEESS, 

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JAMES F. COTTER & CO., Printers, 
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INTRODUCTORY. 




N the twenty -eighth of June; 1875, the Charitable Irish 
Society intrusted to us the task of revising its Constitution 
and By-Laws, preparing a complete list of past and present 
Members, compiling extracts from its Records, and putting the whole 
into a permanent printed form for the purpose of better preservation and 
wider diffusion of the history of the Society. As the result of our labors, 
we respectfully submit the annexed work, with the hope that it will be 
favorably received by the members and friends of the Society. 

The Records of the Charitable Irish Society cover a period of one 
hundred and thirty-nine years, and are in a most excellent state of preser- 
vation. 

Owing to its peculiar organization (no Secretary being elected on the 
Board of Managers), we are unable to give a list of the officers of the 
Society during the first twenty-nine years of its existence, nor can we 
furnish any account of its doings, for the same period, excepting the 
changes occasionally made in its Constitution. 

In making the selections, it has been our aim to give a correct idea of 
the intent, purpose, and workings of the Society, — a Society which has held 
an unbroken line of meetings for one hundred and thirty-nine years, 
and which has discussed and aided in solving all the important questions 
which have arisen during its long existence. 

We have said " an unbroken line of meetings." If any hiatus is to be 
found in the records, it is during the ever memorable and most glorious 
period in our national history extending from 1775 to 1783. The pen, 
though " mightier than the sword," does not always preclude the use of 



INTRODUCTORY. 

the weaker, yet more dreaded, weapon ; and in the eventful years of 
Revolution, the members of the Charitable Irish Society were enacting 
rather than writing history. The entry on page 29 of this volume should 
once for all do away with the foul suspicion, engendered of malice and kept 
alive by ignorance and prejudice, that the Irish-Americans — "persons of 
foreign birth or of foreign extraction " — can ever be wanting in allegiance to 
the nation of which they form a part, or that in a conflict with any foreign 
power whatever, the Irish-Americans could be derelict in their fealty to 
this Republic. 

The Charitable Irish Society took sides with the Revolutionary Patriots 
of 1775, and names of its members are borne upon the rolls of those who 
fought throughout the war which secured our Independence, and gave these 
United States of America a national existence; and when the perpetuity 
of the Union was at stake, members of this Society were prompt to defend, 
with their fortunes and their lives, the integrity of the nation. 

As the records of our past show nothing to regret, and much of which 
we may justly feel proud ; as our associated action has assisted the worthy, 
removed prejudice, and promoted toleration ; as our anniversary celebrations 
and social gatherings have been distinguished as occasions of reciprocally 
good influences between our members and their leading fellow-citizens 
originally of other nationalities, thereby breaking down distinctions of race 
and strengthening the tie of a common American brotherhood ; and as 
much good in other directions has been realized by our organization, — let 
us go forward in like well-doing, remembering that we possess ever in- 
creasing opportunities for usefulness; and that only by emulating the 
example of our predecessors shall we maintain the Charitable Irish Society 
in a position worthy of its age and experience. 

BERNARD CORR, 
JOHN A. DALY, 
PATRICK F. GRIFFIN, 
THOMAS J. GARGAN, 
JOHN S. MAC CORRY, 

Committee. 
Boston, September, 1876. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 

Introductory 

Preamble 3 

Act of Incorporation 5 

Constitution 7 

By-Laws.. 13 

Order of Business. 17 

Extracts from the Original Records 19 

Original Rules and Orders 21 

" By-Laws 25 

Centennial Anniversary 43 

Address by James Boyd, Esq., President of the Society.. 47 

Centennial Banquet 68 

Officers, 1876 98 

Names of Honorary Members 101 

Names of Members 102 

List of Present Members , 131 

List of Officers, 1 737 — 1 876 133 

Form of Bequest 143 

ENGRAVINGS. 

Frontispiece 

Notification Plate 20 

Medals 42 

Certificate of Membership 80 




PREAMBLE. 



The Charitable Irish Society, founded in the Town 
of Boston, A. D. 1737, was instituted for two purposes : 

First. To cultivate a spirit of unity and harmony among all 
resident Irishmen and their descendants in the Massachu- 
setts Colony ; and, while adhering to the fundamental principle 
which underlies all governments, — obedience to properly 
constituted authority, — to advance socially and morally the 
interests of the Irish people. 

Second. To alleviate suffering, and to aid such of its 
members as by the vicissitudes of fortune might be deserving 
of its charity. 

Remembering that morality, industry and education are the 
levers which move and direct the world, the present members 
pledge themselves anew to maintain and perpetuate the purposes 
of the Society as expressed by its founders, — so that even our 
fellow-citizens of other origin may be converted into helpers, 
ready to aid us in developing and strengthening our resources ; 
and that the interests of Irishmen and their descendants may 
be advanced by encouraging the culture of those great princi- 
ples, which, guided by charity, tend to make the perfect man. 




Commoitkdtjj of Passwjnsetts. 



IN THE TEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINE. 



AN ACT 



To incorporate Shubael Bell and others, into a Society, by the name of the 
CHARITABLE IRISH SOCIETY. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 
Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the 
authority of the same, That Simon Elliott, Shubael Bell, 
Andrew Dunlap, John Magner and John Gillis, and their 
associates, together with such others as may be admitted 
members of said association, be and they hereby are incorpo- 
rated into a Society, by the name of the " Charitable Irish 
Society," with power to have and to use a common seal ; to 
make contracts ; to sue and be sued ; to establish by-laws and 
orders for the regulation of said Society and the preservation 
and application of the funds thereof, provided the same be not 
repugnant to the constitution and laws of this Commonwealth. 
And to take, hold and possess any estate, real or personal, by 
subscription, gift, grant, purchase, devise or otherwise, and the 
same to improve, lease, exchange, or sell and convey, for the 
sole benefit of said Institution ; provided the value of the real 
and personal estate of said Society shall never in the whole 
exceed Twenty Thousand Dollars. 



b ACT OF INCORPORATION. 

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said Society shall 
meet annually, on the seventeenth day of March, in Boston, 
(unless the same should fall upon a Sunday, in which case the 
annual meeting shall always be holden on the day succeeding,) 
for the purpose of electing by ballot, from their members, a 
President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and such other officers 
as may be necessary to manage their concerns, and all which 
officers shall hold their said offices for one year, and until 
others shall be elected to succeed them. Upon any urgent 
occasion, the President or Vice-President, or in their absence, 
the Treasurer, may appoint a special meeting of said Society, 
said meeting to be notified in two newspapers in said town, five 
days at least before holding the same : provided nevertheless, 
that this Act of Incorporation shall -be determinable at the 
pleasure of the Legislature. 

House of Representatives, Feb. 22, 1809. 

This bill having had three several readings, passed to be 
enacted. 

TIMOTHY BIGELOW, Speaker. 

In Senate, Feb. 23, 1809. 
This bill having had two several readings, passed to be 
enacted. 



Approved, Feb. 23, 1809. 



H. G. OTIS, President. 
LEVI LINCOLN. 




CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 



OF THE 






ARTICLE I. 

TITLE. 

The style and title of this organization shall be the 
" Charitable Irish Society." 

ARTICLE II. 

qualifications for membership. 

Section 1. Any person of Irish birth, or of Irish descent, 
may be a member of this Society, so as to entitle him to vote, 
or be an officer of the Government. Other persons may, by 
unanimous vote, be admitted honorary members, and their 
names shall be recorded as such. A donation of $50 shall 
entitle any individual, otherwise qualified, to life-membership. 

ARTICLE III. 

MEETINGS of the society. 

Section 1. There shall be four regular meetings of the 

Society in every year. The anniversary shall be held on the 

17th of March, the Festival of St. Patrick, unless it should 

fall on a Sunday, in which case the meeting shall be holden on 



8 CONSTITUTION. 

the day succeeding. The other meetings shall be held on 
the third Mondays in June, September and December. 

Sect. 2. Ten members shall be deemed a quorum for the 
transaction of business at all regular meetings of the Society, 
but at special meetings fifteen legal voters shall constitute a 
quorum. 

ARTICLE IV. 

THE GOVERNMENT. 

Section 1. The Government of this Society shall consist 
of a President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, Keeper 
of the Silver Key, and a Board of Five Directors, (of which 
the Keeper of the Silver Key shall be one, and ex-officio 
Chairman,) who shall severally rank as in the order of this 
recital. 

Sect. 2. They shall be chosen annually at the anniversary 
meeting, by written ballot, and shall continue in office until 
their successors are chosen. 

Sect. 3. Each officer shall be balloted for separately, 
except the Board of Directors, four of whom may be chosen 
on one ballot. 

ARTICLE V. 

DUTIES OF THE PRESIDENT. 

Section 1. It shall be the duty of the President to 
preside at all meetings of the Society ; to preserve order, etc. ; 
and to call special meetings of the Society on a requisition 
signed by ten members ; but he may call special meetings in 
case of the death of any member without such requisition. 

Sect. 2. In case of the absence of the President, the 
Vice-President is invested with Presidential power ; and in 
cases for which no provision has been or can seasonably be 
made by the Society or Government, the presiding and directing 
authority shall be in the highest office present. 



CONSTITUTION. 9 

AETICLE VI. 

DUTIES OF THE TREASURER. FUNDS. 

Section 1. The Treasurer shall receive all moneys due 
the Society collected by the Secretary, and shall pass his 
receipt for the same in the record book of the Society. He 
shall possess all the funds and property of the Society, and 
shall keep a record of the same in a book provided specially 
for the purpose ; and he shall invest or appropriate them in 
such manner as two-thirds of the members present at any 
meeting of the Society, (specially called for the purpose,) shall 
think most beneficial. Before entering upon the duties of his 
office he shall each year give a bond, with two sufficient 
sureties approved by the Society, for an amount equal in value 
to the property in his charge, wherein he shall promise to 
refund all moneys, or whatever else may be committed to his 
care, on the expiration of his term of service, or on his resig- 
nation or removal from office. He shall keep a correct account 
of the receipt, investment and disbursement of all funds, which 
account shall be subject to the inspection of the Board of 
Directors, or such other Committee as the Society or Govern- 
ment may appoint at their pleasure, and shall make a full 
annual report of the same at each anniversary meeting. 

Sect. 2. When the funds are loaned or invested, it shall 
be in the name of the Charitable Irish Society. 

Sect. 3. No officer of the Government shall, whilst in 
office, be a borrower or a security for the repayment of any 
loan from the Society. 

ARTICLE VII. 

DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY. 

Section 1. The Secretary shall keep a record of the 
proceedings of the Society and of the Government thereof; 



10 CONSTITUTION. 

shall issue notifications of the regular meetings of the Society, 
and, by the direction of the President, (see Art. V., Sec. 1,) of 
special meetings of the Government and of the Society, and 
shall deliver to the Board of Directors the names of candidates 
for admission, together with the names of the members by 
whom such candidates are proposed. 

Sect. 2. He shall make an annual report of the number 
of members, meetings, and the general condition of the Society, 
the amount of fees received and due, and of resignations and 
deaths of members. 

Sect. 3. He shall give notice of all meetings at which 
action upon amendments to the Constitution is to be taken. 

ARTICLE VIII. 

DUTIES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 

Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of Directors 
to receive the names of candidates for membership from the 
Secretary, to whom they shall have been reported ; to inquire 
into the character of candidates and report thereon to the 
Society. 

Sect. 2. To examine the accounts of the Treasurer and 
Secretary, prior to their annual report, and if they find them 
correct to file a certificate to that effect. 

Sect. 3. To inquire into the character and condition of 
applicants for the charity of the Society, as provided for in N 
Article XL • 

ARTICLE IX. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Section 1. Each and every person applying for member- 
ship in the Society, shall be recommended by three members, 
and, if approved by the Board of Directors, shall be admitted if 
they receive the votes of three-fourths of the members present 
at any regular meeting subsequent to the meeting at which 
their names are proposed. 



CONSTITUTION. 11 

Sect. 2. Every person when admitted into this Society 
shall subscribe to the Constitution and By-Laws, and pay an 
initiation fee to the Secretary of two dollars, otherwise he 
shall not be considered a member. 

ARTICLE X. 

DUES AND PAYMENTS. 

Section 1. The annual assessment upon each member shall 
be two dollars, and any member omitting to pay his annual 
assessment for three successive years, Bhall not be entitled to 
vote or take any active part in the meetings of the Society. 

Sect. 2. Any member omitting to pay his annual assessment 
for six successive years shall by such omission, notice having 
been previously given by the Secretary, be dropped from the 
roll of membership. 

Sect. 3. Any person who shall have been elected and 
omits to sign the Constitution and pay his initiation fee for the 
term of one year, shall forfeit his right to membership under 
that election, and must be proposed and balloted for anew. 

ARTICLE XL 

CHARITY, DONATIONS, ETC. 

Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of Directors 
to inquire into the character and condition of applicants for the 
charity of this Society, and if such applicants be considered 
deserving objects, to give them an order on the Treasurer for 
the amount deemed proper, limited, however, in proportion to 
the sum voted by the Society to be appropriated for charitable 
purposes. Those who are or have been members, shall, if in 
distress, always have a prior claim. 

ARTICLE XII. 

Section 1. No debt other than contingent expenses shall 
be contracted except by a two-thirds vote of the members 



12 CONSTITUTION. 

present at any meeting, and no sum exceeding one hundred 
dollars shall be appropriated at any meeting unless the members 
of the Society shall have received notice from the Secretary 
previous to the meeting that such appropriation is to be acted 
upon. 

Sect. 2. Any member desiring to offer an order appropri- 
ating money exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars, shall 
file a copy of such order with the Secretary of the Society 
at least ten days before the meeting upon which such order 
shall come up for action. 

ARTICLE XIII. 

Section 1. The Anniversary shall be celebrated in such a 
way and manner as the Society shall determine at the regular 
meeting in December, or at any special meeting called for that 
purpose. 

ARTICLE XIV. 

Section 1. Any dispute arising in the Society, shall be 
settled and finally adjusted by the Government, and the parties 
not submitting to their decision shall be liable to fine or expul- 
sion, at the discretion of the Society. 

ARTICLE XV. 

Section 1. This Constitution and these By-Laws may be 
altered or amended when a written proposition for the same 
shall have been presented at least one regular meeting prior to 
action being taken thereon, and upon the concurrence of two- 
thirds of the members present. 




By-Laws. 



1. The President shall order special meetings of the 
Society on a requisition signed by ten members, presented 
at least twenty-four hours previous to the time contemplated 
for said meeting to take place, and direct the Secretary to 
notify the members of the same and the object set forth 
in the requisition. 

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2. The President shall preserve decorum and order ; may 
speak to points of order in preference to other members ; and 
shall decide all questions of order subject to an appeal to the 
meeting, by motion regularly made and seconded. No other 
business shall be in order till the question on the appeal 
shall have been decided. 



3. The President shall declare all votes, and he may, 

upon any member rising and doubting the vote, call on the 

members for or against the question to rise and stand until 

they are counted by the Secretary, without any further debate 

on the question. 
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14 BY-LAWS. 

4. The President shall propound all questions in the order 
in which they are named, unless the subsequent motion be 
previous in its nature, except that in naming sums and fixing 
times, the largest sum and longest time be put first. 

5. When a motion is pending, the President shall entertain 
no motion, but 

1 To adjourn, 

2 For the yeas and nays, 

3 For the previous question, 

4 To lay on the table, 

5 To postpone indefinitely, 

6 To postpone to a day certain, 

7 To commit, 

8 To amend, 

which several motions shall have precedence in the order 
above stated, but no motion shall be received from a mem- 
ber, while another has the floor. 

6. "When two or more members happen to rise at once, 
the President shall designate the one who is entitled to the 
floor. 

7. A motion to adjourn shall always be considered first in 
order ; and that motion and the motion for the yeas and nays, 
to lay on the table, and to indefinitely postpone, shall be 
decided without debate. 

8. On all questions and motions whatsoever, the President 
shall take the sense of the meeting by yeas and nays whenever 
one-third of the members present shall so require. No motion 
shall be entertained while the yeas and nays are being called, 



BY-LAWS. 15 

except by unanimous consent ; nor any debate allowed while 
the members are voting on any question ; nor shall a motion 
to adjourn be received. When the yeas and nays are being 
taken, the roll shall be called and no member shall be allowed 
to vote who shall not be upon the floor at the time his name is 
called or before the roll call is finished. Any member may 
change his vote after the yeas and nays have been called 
through, and before the vote is announced from the Chair. 



9. The President shall put the previous question in the 
following form. Shall the main question be now put ? and all 
debate on the main question shall be suspended until the motion 
for the previous question shall have been decided. If the question 
so put be decided in the affirmative, the question shall be taken 
forthwith on the pending amendments in their order, and then 
upon the original motion. All incidental questions of order 
arising after a motion is made for the previous question, shall 
be decided without debate, excepting on an appeal from the 
decision of the Chair, and on such appeal no member shall 
be allowed to speak more than once without the consent of 
two-thirds of the members present. 

10. Every member when about to speak in debate, or 
deliver any matter to the Society, shall rise and respectfully 
address himself to the President, shall confine himself to the 
question under debate, and avoid personality, and when he has 
done speaking shall sit down. 

11. No member when speaking shall be interrupted by 
another, but by rising to call to order, or for the purpose of 
making an explanation. 



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12. No member shall speak more than twice on any one 
question, and on an appeal and previous question only once, 
without first obtaining leave of two-thirds of the meeting. 

13. When a vote has passed, it shall be in order for any 
member of the majority to move for a reconsideration thereof, 
except in cases of alterations of the Constitution on the same 
or succeeding meeting, and when a motion for reconsideration 
is decided, that decision shall not be reconsidered. 

14. No motion or proposition of a subject different from 
that under consideration, shall be admitted under color of 
amendment. 

15. No motion shall be debatable until seconded and 
stated from the Chair by the Presiding Officer, and then can 
only be withdrawn by the mover, with the unanimous consent 
of the members present, before an amendment is made or a 
vote taken. 

16. Any question shall be divided when called for by any 
member, if the sense will admit of it. A motion to strike out 
and insert shall be deemed indivisible, but a motion to strike 
out being lost, shall neither preclude amendment or a motion 
to strike out and insert. 

17. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall be 
reduced to writing if desired by the Presiding Officer, before 
being put to the meeting. 

18. When a motion to adjourn is made and lost, a motion 
again to adjourn would not be in order, unless some business 
has been transacted in the interval between the two motions. 



BY-LAWS. 17 

19. These Rules and By-Laws may be altered and amended 
in accordance with article fifteenth of the Constitution. 

20. Any one of these By-Laws may be temporarily sus- 
pended, with the consent of three-fourths of the members 
present and voting. 

Cushing's Manual shall be used as the standard for Rules of 
Order in all cases not herein specified. 



ORDER OF BUSINESS. 

1. Reading the Minutes of the Previous 

Meeting. 

2. Report of the Board of Directors on 

Candidates for Membership. 

3. Election of Members. 

4. Reports of Committees. 

5. Election of Officers. 

6. Unfinished Business. 

7. General Business. 





Extracts from the Records 



OF THE 



CHARITABLE IRISH SOCIETY OF BOSTON 



BEGINNING WITH THE 



Rules and Orders Adopted at the Formation of the Society, 

March 17, 1737. 





The above is probably the "device" referred to in 1791 [see page 30], 
though it may belong to an earlier date. It is printed from an electrotype 
of the original copper-plate, which original is in the possession of the 
Society at the present day. The figure " 8 " was probably inserted at the 
beginning of this century. Reproduced by Mumler's process. 



Rules and Orders 

AGREED UPON, BY THE 

Irish Society 

in New England for the Management 

of THEIR 

CHARITY. 



Whereas; Several Gentlemen, Merchants and Others, of the Irish 
Nation residing in Boston" in New England, from an Affectionate and 
Compassionate concern for their countrymen in these Parts, who may- 
he reduced by Sickness, Shipwrack, Old age and other Infirmities and 
unforeseen Accidents, Have thought fitt to form themselves into a 
Charitable Society, for the relief of such their poor and indigent 
Countrymen, without any Design of not contributing towards the Pro- 
vision of the Town Poor in general as usual. And the said Society being 
now in its Minority, it is to be hoped and expected, that all Gentlemen, 
Merch*? and others of the Irish Nation, or Extraction, residing in, or 
trading to these Parts, who are lovers of Charity and their Countrymen, 
will readily come into and give their Assistance to so laudable an under- 
taking ; and for the due Eegulation and Management of said intended 
Charity, the Society, on the 17th day of March, in the Year 1737, agreed 
on the following Rules and Orders. 



22 EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 

I. This Charity is intended and to be appropriated to and for the 
Relief of Poor, aged, and infirm Persons, and such as have been reduced 
by Sickness, Shipwrack, and other accidental Misfortunes, Contributers, 
who may by such Misfortunes become Objects to be always first preferred. 

II. All persons of evil Fame or Repute, are to [be] excluded as unworthy 
this Charity, and also all Persons reduced in other Countries and having 
suffered no Misfortune in their Passage hither shall not be deemed Objects 
of this Gharity ; and all Irish Men, or of Irish Extraction, being capable 
and invited to joyn in this Charitable undertaking, and refusing the same, 
are to be for ever excluded the Benefit thereof. 

III. In order to raise a Stock for such Charitable Uses every Member 
on his Admission into said Society, shall pay the sum of Ten Shillings at 
least, and shall Quarterly contribute the sum of Two Shillings : and all 
further Donations and Benefactions of the Members and other well-disposed 
Persons towards forwarding the Stock of the Society, shall be thankfully 
received, and Entered into the Society's Books, with the Names of the 
Donors. 

IIII. That in order to regulate the Admission of Members into said 
Society, every Person that shall from time to time desire to be admitted a 
Member thereof, shall first apply to the Managers of said Society, at 
their Monthly Meeting, and obtain their Consent, which Consent shall be 
notified to the Society at their Quarterly Meeting, to be approved or 
rejected by the Majority of Voters, every such Person on his Admission, 
paying, and contributing, as in the foregoing Article is express'd. 

V. That as soon as the Stock shall amount to the sum of Fifty 
Pounds, that then the same shall be punctually put to Interest, and the 
Interest arising thereby, and by all future sums, shall be distributed to 
the proper Objects of this Charity, so that the Stock may always remain 
intire. 

VI. That as soon as the Interest of the Stock shall amount to Twelve 
Pounds p* Annum, . that then the Members of said Society, at their 
Quarterly Meetings (a Majority of the Residenters being present) may 
order a sum not exceeding the Interest of the principal to be distributed, 
and that no person shall receive as Charity out of said Interest above the 
sum of Forty Shillings ; and as the said Stock and the Interest thereof 
may increase, then such further Rules to be made for ordering the Distri- 
bution of the same, as by a Majority of Voters at their annual Meeting, 
shall from time to time be agreed on. 

VII. That all Applications for Relief, or Charity, shall be by Petition 
in Writing, the Allegations thereof, to be in the Knowledge of Two or 



EXTRACTS FROlf THE RECORDS. 23 

more of the members, and to be given into the Managers four Weeks at 
least before the Quarterly Meeting : and for all sums to the amount of 
Forty Shillings or upwards, to be given as Charity to any one Person a 
Bond or Note for the same shall be taken, payable when able, which Bond 
or Note shall be payable to the Treasurer of said Society, and his Successors ; 
and the Majority of Voters at their Quarterly Meetings, shall determine 
who are the proper Objects of said Charity, or any ways entitled to y e 
same. 

VIII. The Managers of this Society shall be a President, a Vice- 
President, a Treasurer, three Assistants, and Three Key-keepers, with a 
Senator to attend the Society's service, the Managers to be natives of 
Ireland, or Natives of any other Part of the British Dominions of Irish 
Extraction, being *Protestants, and inhabitants of Boston. 

IX. That there shall be an Annual Meeting at Boston, on the Second 
Tuesday of April every Year, at such place as the Managers shall appoint 
for the Ellection of Managers for the following Year, and for inspection 
into the former Year's Management, and also three more Quarterly Meet- 
ings on the Second Tuesday of July, Second Tuesday of October, and 
Second Tuesday of January, for the admission of members, collecting and 
disposing of Charity and for the making such orders and Rules as from 
Time to Time may be expedient for the due Regalation of said Society. 

X. That at the Annual or Quarterly Meetings, the President or Vice- 
President being in the Chair, the Rules are to be read before any Business 
is to be entered upon, and no Affair of Consequence to be offered but 
what has been previously under the Deliberation of the Managers at some 
private Meeting by themselves ; every Affair or Question to be determined 
by a majoiity of the then present Voters, except in abrogating any of these 
Rules, or in giving any sum of money exceeding the sum of Forty Shill 8 
to any one person ; in these Cases, two thirds of the Voters to agree thereto, 
and such members as shall be in arrear of their Contribution for the space 
of four Quarters successive, to be debarred from their Votes, 'till they pay 
the Contribution so in Arrear: And none but Contributors to have Votes 
in said Society. 



* There are good grounds for believing that Roman Catholics were admitted to 
membership as early as 1742 ; and it is known that prominent persons of that faith 
were members in 1770. This clause, we may therefore infer, had been repealed at 
an early date. In 1804, when the Constitution was revised, the objectionable part 
was formally abrogated. 



24 EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 

XI. That in order to make the true state of the Stock appear there 
shall be chosen every Year at the Quarterly Meeting immediately preceed- 
ing the said Anniversary Meeting (a Committee) to consist of five Members 
to inspect the Transactions of the Managers of that Year and to examine 
the Treasurer's Accounts, and to make a Report thereof at the said 
Anniversary Meeting. 

XII. That the Treasurer on his receiving the Society's Stock, Books, 
&c, shall give in, sufficient security to the President, Vice-President, and 
one Manager, payable to them, and their respective Successors in said 
several Offices, to render a just and true Account, and to re-deliver the 
Stock, Books and Writings, with the Improvements and Donations 
that may happen in his Time, to the next Treasurer or to the Order of 
the Society ; and the Treasurer, or such Person as the Majority of Voters 
at the Annual Meetings shall appoint is to be Secretary to said Society, 
and to keep a fair Journal of all Votes, Entries and Donations, and other 
Affairs of said Society, and to be allowed for the same as by a Majority of 
Voters at said Meeting shall be adjudged reasonable, and the Treasurer (with 
Consent of the Managers) shall let out the Stock at Interest to substan- 
tial Persons, taking Bond with two Sureties for every sum, which Bond 
shall be payable to the President, Vice-President, or Treasurer, or any of 
them and their Successors, in their respective Offices, and to be registred 
and the Money to be called in, or fresh Security to be entred into upon 
the Death of any of the persons, Obligors or Obligees and if Interest shall 
be due on any of said Bonds for the space of three Months after the Time 
appointed for the Payment thereof then the said Bonds is to be put in suit; 
and to prevent all Inconveniencies and keep up a good Harmony in said 
Society, no Member is to be admitted as a Borrower or Surety. 

XIII. The Key -keepers are to attend Gentlemen and others, Natives of 
Ireland, or of Irish Extraction, residing in these Parts, or Transients, to 
acquaint them with the Charitable Design, and Nature of this Society, 
and to invite them to contribute by the Formality of delivering them a 
Silver-Key, with the Arms of Ireland thereon ; and if any Persons do 
refuse the same, they are to return their Names to some subsequent 
Quarterly Meeting. 

Ul'ttt) ®ooi luill Doing 0mrice. 
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By-Laws, 



Agreed upon by the Irish Charitable Society, on the 11th day of April, 
1737, for the better regulation thereof. 

1st. That in order to keep up a good harmony and Decorum at the 
Meetings of said Society, and for the more easy carrying on of Business, 
It is Ordered that every Member at entering the Eoom shall seat himself, 
and continue in his seat without noyse or disturbance, till the Rules, 
by-Laws and Orders be read. 

2d. It is Order'd that if any Person has any thing to propose or will 
debate any matter, such person shall address himself to the Pres* and 
stand whilst speaking, and if two Persons rise up to speak at the same time 
then the Pres* to determine who shall be first heard, and the other Person 
or Persons so offering to speak to keep their seats and silence till the Person 
speaking has done. 

3d. It is Ord** that all Persons Members of said Society, shall at their 
Quarterly Meetings provide themselves with Change for their Quarterly 
dues being two Shillings at least and also two Shill? for Expenses of the 
House and to pay the same into the Treas™ Hands when called by their 
respective Names, and all Persons on calling the List to keep their Seats to 
prevent disturbance, Xand further that all Members residing in Boston and 
not attending at said Quarterly Meetings but sending their Quarterige shall 
also send one Shilling more for the good of the Stock. X [Repealed Janu'y 
9, 1738. 

4th. Ord? that no Person call for or order any drink into the Eoom 
where said Society is Except the Pres* who or some Person appointed by 
him is to keep an Ace* of the Liquor and to take care that the same do not 
exceed two Shillings for each Member present. [Repealed Janu'y 9, 1738.] 

5th. That if any Member shall offer any Indignity to another or shall 
Swear or Curse in said Society, such Member so offending, shall pay as a 
Fine to the Fund of said Society, the sum of Ten Shillings and such 
Member refusing to pay such Fine after being adjudged Culpable by a 
Majority of the Members present, such Person shall be excluded from 
said Society. 
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26 EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 

April 11, 1737. Order'd that the By-Laws, agreed upon for the better 
Regulation of said Society, be Enter'd in the Book, and 
be read at every Quarterly Meeting immediately after the 
Articles. 



July 11, 1738. That at every Quarterly Meeting, the Members then 
present shall and may proceed to Business, at the hour of 
Eight o'clock in the Evenings of the Spring & Summer 
, Quarters, and at Seven o'clock in the Evenings of the 

Fall & Winter Quarters, and all Members comeing after 
the aforesaid Hours to be debarred from their Votes that 
Evening. 

July 8, 1740. That those who shall take up, upon Bonds any Money 
belonging to the Society, be under Obligation to renew 
said Bonds Yearly, Paying (besides the interest,) Twenty 
Shillings annually to the Box for every Fifty Pounds, and 
no Person to be possess'd of more than Fifty Pounds 
belong? to the Stock. 

July 14, 1741. All or any of the Managers that shall be absent from 
the Quarterly Meetings, shall pay as a Fine for the good of 
the Box Five Shillings, except he or they can offer a 
Beasonable Excuse. 



April 10, 1744. All the Members who appear at the Annual and Quar- 
terly Meetings to be Decent and Clean, without Capps or 
Aprons. 

April 10, 1753. That every Member meet upon due Warning at six 
o'clock on the second Wednesdays of April, July, October 
& Janu'y Annually, and in Case of any Member's Absence, 
they are to Forfeit the sum of Eight Pence except they 
can make it appear to the Majority of the Members at the 
next Meeting it was absolutely necessary. 

April 9, 1754. This Fine enlarged to One Shilling and Four Pence. 



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1766, April 8*} At an Annual Meeting held at James Mayce's : 
John Ball haveing served as secretary seventeen years, desired to be 

excused, which was Granted, and the Thanks of the Society given him for 
his services, he being allowed nothing for it, save what he ought to have 
paid in Common with the other Members. 

Voted, Unanimously John Ball be Secretary, and paid as the Society 
shall see meet. 

That Thirty shillings be paid Mary Knox as Charity on her Petition of 
this Date. 

1767, October 13^ At a meeting held at Mrs. Sarah Beans : 

The Society has Let out on Interest to John Robertson, Abraham Ireland 
& Elishia Howard as their Bond payable to Wm, Mackay and Danl. 
Malcom for y e use of y e Irish Society, Dated July 7, 1767 for £70.. 13. .4. 
Which Bond is now in the hands of Nicholas Tabb, Treasurer. 

N. B. Observe Richard Taylor John Robertson and Abraham Ireland 
Bond to y e Society Dated y e 17 July 1766, for £66. .13. .4 was given up to 
Jn? Robertson & others when they give y e above Bond for £70.. 13.. 4. 

1768, April 12* Voted that there shant be above l/4 d a man spent at 
a meeting before the Business of the Evening be over, & the reckning 
called & settled and that a Clarke be Chosen Each Evening to settle the 
reckning &c. 

Voted, Thanks to the Rev 4 Mr. John Moorhead for his good advice & 
conduct at y e present meeting. 

1769, April 11* Voted Mess 3 :? Robertson & CoW Bond to the Society 
be put in the hands of Rob* Auchmuty Esq 1 "- to be put in suit. 

Voted Adam Thompson, servitor Forty shillings on his petition — and 
Patrick O'Lara on his petition Four Dollars — and the thanks of the Society 
Voted Andrew Black for his services as Secretary. 

1770, October 9* At a Meeting at Mr. John Colemans : 

Mr. Archibald McNiell agreable to a late Vote of the Society, waited on 
Robert Auchmuty, Esq F. to know what was done in regard to the Bond 
belongs to the Society ; who Reports that agreable to said Vote, He has 
from Time to time, waited on said Auchmuty but could not be fully asser- 
tained of the Situation of said Bond, — Therefore : — 

Voted, Unanimously That said McNeill be further requested to Wait 
on Said Auchmuty & the Clerk of the Superior Court to obtain a Certainty 
of the Situation of said Bond & report the same to the President & Vice 



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President & consult with them what is necessary to be done in said affair, 
in secures the payment of said Bond. And the Society engages to pay 
& reimburst said McNeill what Expence & Charge he may be at in prose- 
cutes said affair and bringing it to a final Issue. 

1770, December 11*? At a meeting at Cap* Lewis EitzGeralds. 

Voted Unanimously, That Cap* William Mackay & Mr. Archibald 
McNeill, wait on Robt. Auchmuty, Esq'r. & further consult him relating 
to Securing the payment of the Bond belonging to the Society, & in case 
said Auchmuty advises Mr. McNeill be requested to proceed up the Country 
to the places of abode of the Bonded, furnish'd with proper Authority to 
procure the Society's Money ; And the Society engages to pay and reim- 
burst said McNeill what Expence & Charge he may be at in prosecutes the 
same, out of the Society's Box. 

1771, April 9*.? At an Annual Meeting at Cap* Lewis EitzGeralds : 
Voted, That the Charity of this Society shall be Confind & only extend 

to, the Members of this Society their Families or Offspring, as are in 
Indigent Circumstances. 

Whereas, Cap * William Mackay has laid before the Society a Letter 
from John May Jun r Duputy Sheriff for Lancaster in the County of 
Worcester, as follows — 

Lancaster, March y e 20 th : 1771. 

Sr. I have done the very best I possibly could with the Execution in your 
fav r against Steward &c, but was obliged to Settle it on good Security to 
receive the Money in a short time. I could do no otherwise except I had 
committed the Debtors, & I knew you was too much of a Gentleman to 
desire that, as it would not recoverd the Money so soon as in this way, & I 
hope I shall have your approbation for my Conduct, if you will lett the 
Money tarry here, I will take care to make you unquestionable Security, 
by Land or bondman in such a Manner that the Interest shall be punctu- 
ally paid. If you approve of this, please to send me a line, that I may apply 
to some one you can Confide in, who will recommend the Suriety, other- 
wise as soon as I possibly can recover the Money I will return it to you. 
It is now on Interest, & I must beg a short time to Collect it or the Bonds- 
man will suffer. I am with great Esteeem your most Hum le Serv*. 

Sign'd. John Mat, Jun e . 
To W M . Mackay, Esq*. 

1771, Aug. 13^ At a Meeting at M* Benj*Burdicks Junr. : 
Whereas the Money due to the Society from Robertson & others for their 
Bond dated July 1767, is paid into the hands of the President Cap* William 



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Mackay y e Billet rec d from him, being Eighty Eight Pounds Lawfull 
Money : Therefore Voted Unanimously, 

That Cap*. Will m Mackay, ) be a Committee to lett out said Sum on 
M 1 :- Neall M c Intyer, >• good Land and Personal Security ( the 
M^- AndT Black, } Land laying & persons living not exceed- 

ing Twenty Miles from Boston,) according to their best judgment. 

1772, April 14^ At a meeting held at Sarah Beans: 

Voted that the thanks of this Society be given to Nich's Tabb our late 
Treasurer, & Mr. Samuel Condon our late Secretary, for their past and 
faithfull services, and that the same be entered on the Society's Books. 

Voted, that the Note from the proprietors of the Long Wharf for Ninety 
Pounds, the property of this Society, & made payable to the President, 
Vice President, or their Successors, be lodged in Treasurer's hands. 

1773, April the 13** At a Meeting of the Irish Society at Ben]?. 
Burdicks, fore street: 

Voted, that every member for the future shall pay one shilling Lawfall 
at every meeting, towards the Charitable fund, and that the three pence 
usually collected for defraying the expence, be struck off. 

1775, February 21 *f At a Meeting of the Irish Society at Mrs. Beans : 
Vot* yt Mr. Will m M"r Neill wait on the Widow Lahay to enquire into 
her circumstances, & if found to be necessitous to pay her six Dollars she 
signing a Petition for the same. John McLean, Secj . 

1784, October 26^ At a Meeting of the Charitable Irish Society at 
Mr. John Tufts : the President, William Mackey, made a short and 
appropriate address, which by vote of . the Society was placed on the 
Records, as follows : — 

Gent 1 ? Members of the Charitable Irish Society, I congratulate you on 
this Joyful Occasion, that we are assembled again after Ten years absence 
occasioned by a Dreadful and Ruinous war of near Eight years; also that 
we have Conquered One of the greatest and most potent Nations on the 
Globe so far as to have peace and Independency. May our friends, 
Countrymen in Ireland, Behave like the Brave Americans till they recover 
their Liberties. 

Voted that William Mackey, Simon Elliot & Moses Black be a Com- 
mitte to Examine the Treasurer's Accounts &Waite on Mr. Giles Alexander 
Agent for the Proprietors of Long wharf, to know if he will allow Com- 
pound Intrest on the Bond given to this Society by him, and if he Avill allow 



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Compound Interest, that the said Committee be Empowered to Take a new 
Bond for Principal & Interest. If he will not allow Compound Interest to 
demand principal and Interest, & if it should not he paid in one month 
after so Demanded Then to be put in suit next January Court. 

1786, January 31*.? At a Meeting at M.™ Loring: 
Voted, That Members of Other Charitable Irish Society s be admitted 
to this Charitable Society as Visiting Bretheren. 

1791, April 12*.? At an annual meeting of the Charitable Irish Society 
held at Mr. John Bryant's in State Street : 

Voted— That all members admitted and all officers chosen hereafter be 
by Ballot, two thirds of the Votes of the members present making a choice. 

1791, June 14*.? Upon the motion of Mr. Simon Elliot Jun r . —Voted, 
that a number of notifications, upon a new plan, with a device representing 
the Arms of Ireland &c, be procured for the use of the Society, and that 
Mr. Simon Elliot Jun r . & the Secretary be a Committee for procuring 
the same. 

1792, April 10*? The Treasurer's Account being laid before the Society, 
was examined, and there appearing to be a Balance of thirty five pounds 
7/4 $ due the Society, it was therefore voted that the Account be 
approved and recorded, & that the Treasurer be requested to loan thirty 
pounds of the said Balance, upon good Security. 

1794, March 17*? Voted, That this be the annual meeting for the present 
year & that the annual meeting in future be on the 17th day of March 

instead of the second Tuesday in April, and the other meetings as usual. 

Upon motion of Mr. Gardner, — Voted that a Sum not exceeding three 

pounds be appropriated to purchase School Books for poor Children of 

Irish Extraction, & that the President, Vice President & Secretary be a 

committee for that purpose. 

1795, January 13*.? At a Meeting, at the Shakespeare Hotel : 

Voted, That the same Committee in the Name of the Society Invite the 
Eev^ Dr. Jeremy Belknap to Dine with them on the day of our Annual 
Eeast, and that the same Committee in the Name of the Society have 
Liberty to Invite one other Gentleman of the Clergy of this Town also to 
Dine with them at the same time. 

Voted, That the above Committee be empowered to invite Twelve other 
Gentlemen, not members of the Society to Dine at our Table at our 
Annual Feast they being accountable for the Expense. 



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1795, March 17^ At a Meeting at the Long Room — Theatre ; 

The Committee appointed to Invite two Gentlemen of the Clergy of 
Boston to dine with the Society on this day, Introduced the Rev d Doc * 
Belknap & Rev d Doc 1 Howard. 

1796, March 17$ At a meeting of the Charitable Irish Society, held 
at Mr. Mahoney's, Federal Street: 

A letter was Read to the Society from Mr. Francis Wright acknowledging 
a debt due the Society am* Five Hundred Dollars, and requesting to 
discharge the same. 

Voted, That Mr. Wright's letter be presented to the Treasurer, with 

directions to continue the Loan to Mr. Wright on the present Existing 

mortgage. But in case of refusal on the part of Mr. Wright to hold said 

Loan, to receive the money, discharge the mortgage, & Vest the amount in 

the Three or Six ^ Cent Stocks of the United States. 

Voted, that the President, Vice President, & Mr. Thomas English, be a 
Committee to prepare and present to the Legislature at their next meeting 
a Petition for Incorporating the Irish Society. 

1797, January 10*? At a meeting of the Charitable Irish Society, at 
James Vilas : 

Voted, a Dinner on S* Patricks day & the following Gent?? to provide 
it — Viz 4 : — Simon Elliot, Esqr., Capt. Danl. McNeill, Mr. Thomas English. 

Voted The above committee prepare such Toasts as the occasion may 
Require. 

Voted That the above committee be authorized to admit such Gent?, as 
may appear proper subjects for the Celebration, they paying their own Club. 

1797, August 8# Voted the following Gent? Thomas English, Esq?- 
Cap* James McGee & Cap* Robert Gardner as a Committee to Investigate 
the Society's Funds & devise means to increase them, & make report at the 
next Meeting. 

1798, March 17$ Cap* Robert Gardner one of the committee for 
examining the funds &c. was requested to report, who replied they should 
not be ready until the next Meeting. 

1798, June 12$ The President & a few members meet & adjourned 
until the second Tuesday in August next. 

1798, August. The Society were not warned Because the Contagion 
raged, & the members principaly out of Boston. 



32 EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 

1798, October. The Society were not warned Because the Contagion 
was not entirely Eradicated, and the Members not generally Returned. 

1 898, December IV!} Only three Members present, therefore business was 
suspended until the next meeting on the 8th day of January next. 

1799, January 8*} Voted that a Committee be appointed to Investigate 
the Treasurer's Accounts, and make return on the 18th of March, 1799. 
The following Gent n Chosen, viz*- Tho. English, Robert Gardner, James 
McGee. 

Voted, that the Secretary shall be directed to offer a Subscription paper 
to the members of the Society for the Celebration of St. Patrick, and if 
a sufficient number be obtained in the opinion of a Committee that shall 
be appointed, to Order a Dinner, Monday the 18th of March next at 
James Vila's, — And to meet at 12 o'clock, to Transact the Annual Busi- 
ness, & to Dine at half-past Two, P. M. 

Voted that a Committee be appointed to nominate the Gen? who shall 
be invited to the Celebration of St. Patrick. 

The following Gen? Chosen Viz*- Simon Elliot, Robert Gardner, Wra. 
Mackay, Jun. & Thomas Neil. 

1799, March 17$ & 18 f £ Voted that the report of the committee consisting 
of Thomas English, Robert Gardner and James McGee be accepted, and 
that the Secretary record the same, and serve the Treasurer with a Copy. 

In Commitee Voted that when the Treasurer exhibits his annual acco! 8 
for adjustment— that he also produce a list of the Society's funds specifying 
the particulars in which they are Invested— and that he also give Bonds to 
a Committee of the Society to be appointed for that purpose, to Respond 
to the Society the amount of the Funds, or in case of his Death that his 
Executors, or administrators shall so Respond. Boston, March 5, 1799. 

Thomas English, 
James McGee, 
Robert Gardner. 

Voted, that Thomas English, James McGee and Robert Gardner be a 
committee to receive the Bond reported March 5th, 1799. 

1799, June \Q l h President, Vice President, and all the members absent 
Except the Secretary, — -Therefore all business is suspended until the next 
meeting. 

1799, Second Tuesday of August. The Society were not warned. 
Because the extreem heat of the weather, the shortness of the Evenings,, 
and a number of the members residing in the Country during the Summer 
season. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 33 

1800, Second Tuesdays of June and August. The Society were not 
warned Because the extreem heat of the weather — the shortness of the 
Evenings, and a number of the members then residing in the Country. 

1800, Second Tuesday of October. The Society were not warned Be- 
cause the President & Vice-President were both absent. 

1800, Second Tuesday of December. All the members duly Notified. 
One member & the Secretary appears, Business Suspended. 

1801, March 17 f £ Voted, the following Gentlemen be a committee for 
Adjusting the Accounts of the Society with the Administrators of the 
Estate of Mr. William Mackey late Treasurer of this Society, Viz*- 

Robert Wier, Jun r -, Robert Gardner, Pat. Carson. 

1801, Second Tuesday of December. Voted that Thirteen dollars be 
refunded Col . Robert Gardner, which sum he gaye in the name of the 
Charitable Irish Society to the Distressed Passengers on board the Brig e .. 
Albicore, Cap* Courtney. 

Voted that Col . Robert Gardner be requested to accept the thanks of 
this Society for his prompt & early attention to the Relief of our distress 'd 
brethren. • 

1802, March 8^ Voted that the Secretary be requested to present the 
Delinquent members with a bill of their arrearages, receive their reply & 
make return to the Society at their next Meeting. 

Voted that a Dinner be pro-vided to Celebrate the Anniversary of St. 
Patrick. 

Voted that a Committee be chosen to provide a Dinner at James Vila's, 
the following Gent n . were chosen,— Simon Elliot, Rob * Gardner, 

Rob* Wier, Pat. Carson. 

1802, June 8$ Voted that a Committee be appointed with dispensing 
Power to relieve distress'd Hibernians where their immediate necessity 
require a sum not Exceeding Ten Dollars, which sum shall be given by 
a Majority of the Committee and shall be reimbursed at the next Meeting. 

Voted that a Committee consist of Three. 

Voted the following Gentlemen, Viz* 

Gen 1 . Simon Elliot, Andrew Dunlap, Sen?., & Pat. Carson. 

1802, Second Tuesday of October, — 12*£ The Society were not warned 
Because the Unfortunate Contagion was not perfectly Eradicated and the 
members not all returned to Boston. 



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1803, 17 f .^ day of March, a Meeting of the Charitable Irish Society was 
held at Robert McCormick's: 

1803, The second Tuesday of June, — 14^ The Society was not warned 
because a number of the Society was out of Town for the Summer Season 
and the Evenings being so short. 

1803, on the second Tuesday of August. The President out of Town. 
The Vice-President's Family Sick, therefore business was suspended until 
the next meet? 

1804, Second Tuesday of April, by adjournment. 

Copy of Circular Letter to Delinquents of Charity Voted on the 17th of 
March 1804, Viz*- It appears by the Records of the Charitable Irish 
Society, that you are a Member of that Institution. The subscribers are 
appointed a Committee for the purpose of inquiring whether you wish to 
continue your membership in that Society. The pleasure of your company 
is requested at the Celebration of the Anniversary of St. Patrick's Festival. 
Your account with the Society is hereby respectfully transmitted by your 
Hum b . 1 ? Servants. Simon Elliot, 

John Magner, 
Thos O. Selfridge. 



1806, March 13^ At a meeting of the Government of the Charitable 
Irish Society: 

Voted, The Secretary send invitations to the Rev'd Clergymen, viz't 
Doct. Francis A. Matignon, John Cheverus & John Murray. 

Voted, The Secretary insert the time of Dinner on the Notifications, 
half-past 2 o'clock, P. M. 

1808, April 14*.? At a meeting by adjournment at James Vila's: 
Votes for officers for the ensuing year. 
Voted Gen'l Simon Elliot, President. 

Thomas English, Vice President. 

John Magner, Treasurer. 

Andrew Dunlap, Keeper of the Silver Key. 

Shubael Bell, Corresponding Secretary. 

John Beane, Secretary. 

Timothy Hunt, ) 

John Gillis, r Trustees. 

William Daily, ) 



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Voted, That a Committee of Five members, be appointed to settle and 
adjust the Accounts of the Society, with full power to invest the Funds of 
the Society Permanently, that they may be applied according to the Spirit 
and intention of the Contributors, and be held at the disposal of the Soci- 
ety whenever the Society shall be regularly assembled & organized for 
that purpose. 

No charity or fines collected at this meeting. 

Fire is cried & Bells ringing, the Society disperse. 

1808, on the fourth day of November. Meeting by the Government: 
Voted, the Trustees of this Society be impowered to prefer a Petition to 
the Legislature for the incorporation of the Society. 

1810, December 31 s .? At a meeting at the Exchange Coffee House, by 
adjournment from the 3^ Monday of December: 

Voted, that if a sufficient number of persons subscribe to justify it in the 
minds of the Committee, that they be impowered to Invite in the name of 
the Society, His Excellency the Govermour and his two aids, His Hon'r the 
Lieu't Governor, Bishop Cheverus & Rev'd Mr. Matignon, Rev'd Mr. 
John Murray & the Rev'd Mr. Mitchel, to dine with the Society on said 
Festival. 

1811, March 18** 

Voted, Robert Gardner, f be a Committee to form a design for a 
"William Lennon, r Certificate of membership and report 
John Beane, ) at the next Meeting. 

1813, June 21 s * At a meeting at Messrs. Strong & Brown's: 

Voted, the Seal furnished by William Lennon be accepted and used by 
the Society, and the Bill for the same paid by the Treasurer. 

Voted, a Certificate of membership be furnished to each member, he 
paying not less than One Dollar. 

Voted, a committee be appointed to procure a plate and carry into effect 
the above vote. 

Voted, the following Gent'n compose the Committee. 

Shubael Bell, 
William Lennon, 
Patrick Brown. 

1813, December 19*? Voted, the keeper of the Silver Key be authorized 
to deliver the Certificates of membership to each member and receive pay- 
ment thereof, a sum not less than One Dollar for each Certificate and as 
much more as their generosity may admit. 



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1814, December 19'.? Voted, the Secretary notify the Right Rev'd John 
Cheverus, Bishop, by a card, of his invitation to the Celebration of the 
Festival of the Holy St. Patrick. 

1815, March 17'.? At the annual meeting at the Exchange Coffee House. 
Voted, unanimously a Committee be appointed to inform Gen'l Simon 

Elliot of his election as President of the Charitable Irish Society. 
Voted, the following members be the Committee, vizt. 
Thomas 0. Selfridge, Esq'r, } 
Shubael Bell, Esq'r, &c, > Committee. 

Capt. James Magee, ) 

1815, December 18$ At a meeting at Mr. Dowes Hotel : 

Voted, the Society celebrate the anniversary of the Festival of the Holy 
St. Patrick, on the 18th day of March 1816, the 17th day being Sunday. 

Voted, the following members be the Committee of arrangements, vizt. 
Abraham Strong, Walter Welsh, William Lennon & Jno. Beane. 

Voted, the Committee of arrangements are impowered to invite Eio-ht 
Gentlemen to the Festival, vizt. John Cheverus, D.D., Bishop; F. A. 
Matignon, D.D.; Rev'd Asa Eaton; English, French & Spanish Consuls. 

1816, September 16*? Voted, Judge Parkers Bill be paid for assistance 
to distressed Irish passengers bound to New York, turned on shore in Boston. 

1816, December 15'.? Voted, the following members be a Committee, to 
Request the Right Rev'd Bishop Cheverus to address the Society on the 
anniversary of the Holy St. Patrick, 1817, and that there be a Collection 
made for the Relief of the Poor. Shubael Bell, Esq., Capt. James Magee, 

Gen'l Simon Elliot, Thomas English, Esq. 
Voted, that the following Gentlemen, be presented with a Card of invita- 
tion to the Festival of the Anniversary of the Holy St. Patrick 1817, vizt. 
The Right Rev'd Bishop Cheverus, D.D., Rev'd Asa Eaton, D.D., Rev'd 
Mr. Felsh. 

1817, March 17'.? Received of the Rev. Bishop, collected at Church, 
$36.55. Voted, the following members be a committee to wait on the 
Right Rev'd Bishop John Cheverus, to request the favour of his giving the 
Society a copy of the discourse he delivered on the 17th day of March, 1817. 

Abraham Strong, 

Shubael Bell, ' Committee. 

John McNamara, 



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1817, March 22 n .<? Voted, the President invest the surplus moneys in 
the hands of the Treasurer, in such United States Stock, as will produce 
the greatest interest. 

1817, June 16^ At a meeting at Mr. Isaac Dowes, State Street. 
Voted, Charity to James Miler, for the purpose of purchasing a wooden 
Leg, Three and one-half Dollars. 

1817, September 15'* Voted, John McNamara, Patrick McNarney & 
Isaac Dowe be a Committee to erfquire into the merits of the situation of 
the Emigrants late arrived from Ireland and make return to the government. 

1819, April 1 st . At a meeting at Concert Hall. 

State of the Society's Funds April 1st, 1819, Vizt. 

Edward Fisher of Newton, Mortgage, $834.41 $834.41 

Balance in the hands of Peter Fenigan, present Treasurer 1 14.00 

" Shubael Bell, Esq'r., " 50.08 

" " " Abraham Strong, late " 92.01 

Cash Shubael Bell p'd Peter Fenigan, his Charity 2.00 

$1,092.50 

1819, September 20^* At a quarterly meeting at Mr. Thomas Murphy's. 
Voted, James "Willson is authorized to send on to Philadelphia, for 
medals agreeable to his order, 75 in number, amount $93.75. 

1819, December 20'.? Voted, the Society do not have an Annual Dinner 
because it happens on Friday. 

1822, March 18'.? At a meeting at Mr. William Foster's Concert Hall'. 

Voted, the thanks of the Society to the Right Rev'd Bishop Cheverus 
and Rev'd William Taylor, for Bestowing to the Society the sum of Fortv- 
three dollars, ree'd at a collection at a Sermon preached by the Rev'd 
William Taylor, in the Catholic Church on the 17th March, 1822. 

1825, March 17'.? At the anniversary meeting at the Exchange Coffee 
House. 

Voted, that a vote of thanks be presented to the Rev. William Taylor, 
Rector of the Catholic Church in Boston, for the sum of Thirty Dollars 
and sixty Cents presented to the Society by him, wbjch was collected in the 
Catholic Church on the 17 th of March, Eighteen Hundred and Twenty -five 

1826, September 18'.? The Committee appointed to take into considera- 
tion the faithful and highly beneficial services of our late Secretary 

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38 EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 

and worthy brother Mark Byrne, beg leave .to report that the Irish 
Society present to Mr. Byrne at their next quarterly meeting, a Silver Cup, 
with such appropriate inscription as a Committee chosen for that purpose 
may deem worthy of his High deserts. 

John McNamara, (Chairman.). 

Tho's Jordan, 

Abraham Moore, 

Bernard Fitzpatrick. 

The above unanimous report accepted. 

Mich. Ryan, Secretary. 

On motion of Col. Moore, that a committee of six be appointed to prepare 
for the next quarterly meeting, on the third Monday of December next, the 
Silver Cup as above : vote taken and accepted. 

The above named gentlemen with Messrs. Andrew Dunlap and H. B. 
Smith constituted the committee. 

1830, March 15'£ The following Getitlemen were chosen as a committee 
of investigation of the moral character of proposed members, vizt., 
Edw'd Kitts, > Dan'l McGowan, Mich'l Higgins. 

1830, March 17*£ According to a vote passed at the anniversary meet- 
ing, the Government of the Society has invested the above funds and taken 
a mortgage for the same, on the Catholic Church in Pawtucket, R. I., at 
6 per cent, per annum, the interest to be paid annually, on or before the 
anniversary. 

1830, June 21 s .? At a quarterly meeting held at Mr. Thomas Murphy's, 
corner of Federal & Franklin Streets : Bernard Fitzpatrick, President, in 
the chair. 

Voted, That the Government shall on to-morrow wait on the Right 
Rev'd Bishop Fenwick and request him to give ample Security for the 
money he had already borrowed. Say $480. 

1830, September 20^ It was Voted, That the report of the committee 
of investigation, be accepted and the following persons be admitted as 
members, viz, Rev'd Thos. J. O'Flaherty. Thomas Paine. 

Gen'l John McNeil. Arthur McEvpy. 

Francis McKenna. Henry Nicholson. 

Patrick Murphy. John Eviston. 

1831, June 20$ At a quarterly meeting held at the Exchange Coffee 
House : Jas. Riley was appointed Secretary, and Thos. Kennedy, Keeper 
of the Silver Key, the remainder of the year. 






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Voted, That James Ryan be one of the Committee to distribute the 
charity money in place of Edward Kitts, resigned. 

1833, March 18 f £ At the anniversary meeting held at Gallagher's 
Howard St. House : 

Voted, To present the Hon'l Edward Kavanaugh, with a Diploma and 
Medal of the Society. 

Voted, That the officers of the Society be a Committee to consider the 
propriety of purchasing Standards, Banners, &c, for the Society and to 
report next quarterly meeting. 

1833, June 19"^ At a meeting of a Committee of the Charitable Irish 
Society, held at Mr. Thomas Murphy's : 

It was voted, That a Committee of three be appointed to wait on the 
private Secretary of the President of the United States, and ascertain at what 
time it would be most convenient for the President [Andrew Jackson,] 
to receive the respects which the Society wished to pay to the Chief 
Magistrate of the Nation, on the occasion of his visit to this City. 

Voted, That James Boyd, Francis McKenna and Isaac Means, be a 
committee for that purpose. 

Voted, That a Committee of three be appointed to wait on Andrew 
Dunlap, Esq're, and request him to introduce the Society to the President. 

Committee for that purpose, Thos. Murphy, Dennis W. O'Brien and 
John McNamara. 

Voted, That James Boyd, President of this Society, will deliver an 
address to the President of the United States. 

Voted, That a Committee of three be appointed to retire and nominate 
a Banner Bearer. When Francis McKenna, Mich'l Riley and Dan'l 
McGowan were appointed a Committee and reported the name of Mr. 
John McNamara, who was chosen. 

Voted, That the following Gentlemen act as Marshals, to conduct the 
Society to the Lodgings of the President at the Tremont House, at half- 
past nine o'clock, on Saturday evening, June 22nd, being the time selected 
by the President. 

Chief Marshal, Wm. P. M'Kay, Patrick Sharkey, 

Walter Madigan, Lawrence Doyle, 

John F. Carroll, Thos. Swords, 

Thos. Bogue, James King, 

Jas. Sullivan, Thos. W. Short, 

Arthur McEvoy, Martin Whelan, 
Charles Short. 



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On the 22nd of June, pursuant to previous appointment, the Society to 
the number of about one hundred met : they then proceeded in a body 
under the direction of the Marshals to the Tremont House, where they 
were received by the President in that kind-hearted, free and affectionate 
manner, so characteristic of himself, and so congenial to the feelings of 
Irishmen. After having been introduced to him, first collectively and then 
individually by Col. Prescott, the President of the Society, Mr. James Boyd, 
addressed the President as follows : — 

" Sir : — The Members of the Charitable Irish Society of this City, have 
with much anxiety sought this interview and now feel very proud in having 
an opportunity afforded of paying their respects to you personally. Your 
name, Sir, has so long been familiar to them, a subject of the highest admi- 
ration to many, and of kind respect to all, that they thought they would 
be guilty of inhospitality, (a crime which Irishmen do not wish to be 
chargeable with,) did they allow this occasion to pass without visiting you 
in a body. This Society Sir, is comprised exclusively of Irishmen and 
their direct descendants, a class of citizens in this community, not opulent, 
but I may be allowed to say industrious. We are all, Sir, working bees in 
the hive. We fill the place now, that was once occupied by men who have 
done the State some service in times of peril and danger, men who did not 
withdraw themselves from the ranks fighting the battles of Liberty, nor 
ever withhold the most zealous support to the Constitution and Laws and 
Magistrates of this our adopted Country. We hope, Sir, the present 
generation has not fallen off from the standing maintained by their fathers, 
and that if occasion required, the motto on our Banner would be a promise 
which would be willingly performed at any time. As I have already 
remarked, Irishmen have never been backward in giving support to the 
institutions of this Country, nor in showing due respect to the Chief 
Magistrate thereof, but when the highest Office is held by the so)i of an 
Irishman, we must be allowed to indulge in some feelings of pride as well 
as patriotism. As this is your first visit to the Northern portion of the 
Union, permit us to hope, Sir, that you may find much here to please you, 
that you will return with a knowledge that this community is an industrious, 
a prosperous and a happy one, and as we hope the welfare of Irishmen is a 
subject not uninteresting to you, we may be allowed to say that here we 
are generally contented. We do our part towards the support of all public 
institutions and receive a full share of their benefits. 

"Allow me, Sir, to hope that you may have a safe and pleasant journey 
till you again reach the centre of the Nation, and that the remainder of 
your life may be as long and happy, as the past has been brilliant and 
successful. " 



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The President replied in the following words : 

"I feel much gratified, Sir, at this testimony of respect shown me* by 
the Charitable Irish Society of this City. It is with great pleasure that I 
see so many of the Countrymen of my Father assembled on this occasion. 
I have always been proud of my ancestry and of being descended from that 
noble race, and rejoice that I am so nearly allied to a country which has so 
much to recommend it to the good wishes of the world; would to God, Sir, 
that Irishmen on the other side of the great water, enjoyed the comforts, 
happiness, contentment and liberty, that they enjoy here. I am well aware, 
Sir, that Irishmen have never been backward in giving their support to the 
cause of liberty. They have fought, Sir, for this Country valiantly, and I 
have no doubt would fight again were it necessary, but I hope it will be 
long before the institutions of our Country need support of that kind ; 
accept my best wishes for the happiness of you all." 

This being gone through with, the Society were about to withdraw, when 
the President again took Mr. Boyd by the hand, and in the most affection- 
ate manner held it whilst he expressed himself nearly as follows : — 

" I am somewhat fatigued, Sir, as you may notice, but I cannot allow 
you to part with me till I again shake hands with you, which I do for 
yourself and the whole Society. I assure you, Sir, there are few circum- 
stances that have given me more heartfelt satisfaction than this visit. I 
shall remember it with pleasure, and I hope you, Sir, and all your Society 
will long enjoy health and happiness." 

1834, March 17$ At the Anniversary Meeting held at Gallagher's 
Howard Street House. 

Voted, That the thanks of this Society be given to Mr. Tyrone Power, 
for his liberal donation to the Charity fund, being ten dollars. 

1834, August 29*? At a special meeting held at Mr. Thomas Murphy's. 

The Chairman having stated that the object of the present meeting, 
was to take into consideration the propriety of this Society joining in the 
Celebration and services about to be observed on the sixth of September 
next, in honor of the memory of Marshal Lafayette, it was 

Voted, That this Society will join in the intended celebration in honor 
of Marshal Lafayette on the 6th day of next month, by walking in 
procession on that day. 

1834, September 6'? The Charitable Irish Society, pursuant to previous 
notice, met at Julien Hall on the morning of the sixth of September, in 
order to join in the services about to be observed on that day, in honor of 
Marshal Lafayette : 



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Having appointed a standard bearer and twelve marshals, who decorated 
themselves with the medals of the Society and a special Badge provided for 
the occasion, in honor of Gen. Lafayette, and bearing his likeness, the 
Society, preceded by a splendid band of music, marched from the Hall, 
through Federal, Franklin, Washington and Park Streets, to the State 
House, where they joined the general procession of citizens. The general 
procession escorted by nearly all the military companies of Boston, moved 
from the State House by a circuitous route by the Common, through 
Washington and State Streets to Faneuil Hall, where a Eulogy on the 
character of Lafayette was delivered by the Hon. Edward Everett; at 
the termination of which, the Society again formed in procession, when 
having arrived at the Hall and being handsomely complimented by their 
President, the Society adjourned to their respective homes. 



1836, September 2&} Voted, That a Committee be appointed to collect 
subscriptions from members and others to help to defray the extra expenses 
of celebrating the Centennial Anniversary of this Society, on the 17th of 
March 1837, in a manner becoming Irishmen and the sons of Irishmen, 
which was done. Thereupon by another vote it was ordered that the names 
of the Donors with the sums annexed to their respective names be recorded 
immediately after the proceedings of the 17th of March, 1837. 

1836, December 19^ At a meeting at Concert Hall: 

The committee who were appointed to procure an orator, reported that they 
had chosen James Boyd, Esq., who had kindly accepted, and that they had 
opened a subscription list for the purpose of defraying the extra expenses on 
the occasion. Sixteen of the Committee who were present subscribed the 
sum of-sixty-eight dollars, and since then a further sum of thirty-seven dollars. 

A vote was also passed to invite all societies friendly to us, to join in the 
Celebration, and appointed a committee for that purpose, who reported that 
they had invited the Young Catholic Friends Society, 

Charlestown Mutual Relief Society, 

United Benevolent Socicety of Journeymen Tailors, 

Boston Roman Catholic Mutual Relief Society. 

Voted, That the Society celebrate the Centennial Anniversary by a Public 
Procession, an Oration and a Dinner, that a Committee of Arrangements to 
consist of thirteen be appointed to carry this vote into effect; said Committee 
is invested with full power to take the unfinished business of the committee 
that were discharged. 

Voted, That they have power to add to their number, say one from 
each of the adjacent towns, Salem, Lowell, Providence, Taunton, &c. 





The above is a fac-simile of Medals, — the steel die of which was ordered 
by vote of the Society, June 21st, 1852, at a cost of one hundred dollars, 
to take the place of stamped Medals ordered in 1819; the design of 
which was a Heart with the same Harp with the word ' Erin ' above, and 
seventeen stars surrounding it, [see page 37,] the die of which could not be 
found at this time (1852). The Treasurer was ordered to receive the old 
Medals and allow their value as old silver. 



CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY 



CHARITABLE IRISH SOCIETY, 



CONCERT HALL AND MASONIC TEMPLE, 



MARCH 17, 1837. 





CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY. 



The Charitable Irish Society met according to previous notice on the 
17 th of March, 1837, at 

CONCERT HALL, 

For choice of officers. The Society being organized, the following officers 
were chosen for the ensuing year, viz : — 

James Boyd, President, 

Daniel O'Callahan, Vice-President, 

William P. M'Kay, Treasurer, 

William Bell, Secretary. 
At one o'clock the Society and the Young C. F. Society, together with 
their invited guests, among whom were His Excellency the Governor, 
Mayor, City Marshal, Hon. Stephen Fairbanks of the Senate of our 
State Legislature — Messrs. Kinnicutt, Rantoul and Henchman of the 
House, and John P. Bigelow, Esq., Secretary of State, formed into a 
procession under the direction of their Chief Marshal, Ambrose Parrell, 
Esq., and accompanied by the N. E. Band, proceeded to the 

MASONIC TEMPLE, 

Where an address was delivered by James Boyd, Esq., President of the 
Society. 

ORDEE OF EXERCISES: 

VOLUNTARY BY THE BAND. 



PRAYER. 

BY THE BE V. MB 



LYNC H. 



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ORIGINAL ODE. 

BY REV. MR. PIERPONT 



To the Emerald Isle, where our kindred are dwelling, 

And where the remains of our forefathers sleep, 
Our eyes turn to-day, with the tears in them swelling; — 

But why are we sad, who this festival keep? 
We weep not for ourselves ; — for our fathers, our mothers, 
Whom we ne'er shall see more ; for our sisters, our brothers, 
Whom we hope to see yet ; yes, and for others 
We may not name aloud, — 'tis for these that we weep. 



Poor Ireland ! how long shall thy hardly earn'd treasures 
Be wrung from thy hand, that a priesthood may gorge, 

Who, year after year, are abroad on their pleasures, 
Or swelling the train of a William or George ! 

'Tis not so with thy sons on this side of the ocean ; 

Here we open our hands from the grateful emotion 

We feel to our priests, for their zeal and devotion, 
In removing our sins and the fetters they forge. 



At evening the blue eyes of many a maiden 

In Erin are lifted to look at the star, 
That is hung in the west ; and the night wind is laden 

With sighs for the loved ones beneath it afar. 
Girls of the green isle, do not deplore us ! 
In our visions ye're swimming, like angels, before us, 
And the Being whose shield of protection is o'er ue, 

Hath not made the deep an impassable bar. 



Though absent, the fount of our faith is not frozen, 
While we live, of its up welling waters we'll draw, 
For the maids that we love, for the land that we've chosen, 

Where Freedom is nursed at the bosom of Law. 
' ( Land of the free ! for the shelter thou'st given 
To those whom the storm of oppression has driven 
From their homes, may a blessing be on thee from heaven," 
Say the sons and the daughters of Erin go bragh . 



MR. BOYD'S CENTENNIAL ADDRESS. 47 

ORATION. 

BY JAMES BOYD, ESQ. 



Gentlemen of the Charitable Irish Society, and Friends : 

The world has long established the custom, and experience has shown it 
to he a useful one, to mark, by certain points or data, the progress of man- 
kind through it. The traveller, by noting the mile-stone, hastens or slackens 
his pace, as his time may hurry or permit ; — the mariner, in taking his daily 
meridian observation, shifts his helm so as to counteract the wandering 
occasioned by a lee-way or under-current tendency ; — man, in noticing the 
change of the moon, or the annual return of the sun to a new year's 
starting point, indicates to all that another portion of time has passed our 
reach, and silently admonishes to a prudent use of that which may yet 
remain with us. 

Celebrations of anniversaries are events of common occurrence : we 
mingle in them frequently, and it is hoped and believed that such observ- 
ances are beneficial to the community. This Society has, through a great 
portion of its existence, set one day of the year apart, as a day to be kept 
holy — a day consecrated to recollections of the land of the birth of its 
members, and to free social intercourse with each other. On every other 
day of the year we are, and ought to be, citizens of our adopted country; — 
on this day, we are, and ought to be Irishmen : and this we can be — this 
latter character we can with great propriety resume — for one day out of 
the three hundred and sixty-five, without derogating from our fidelity to 
the former. Nay, the doing so, makes us more fit to sustain the character 
of freemen. 

Though the Seventeenth of March has long been observed, and kept as 
the Annual Festival of this Society, yet it never before came to us under 
the same circumstances as at the present time. The day which closes the 
first century and commences the second of its existence, is one which has 
been thought deserving of a little more than ordinary notice ; hence, we 
are met here on this occasion, and the time we may now spend in this 
place, will be occupied by noticing, and bringing before you, such subjects 
as are supposed to be interesting and appropriate. 

The first of these may be a brief historical sketch of the Society ; and 
if this should prove to be a dry and dull narrative, an apology must in 
part be sought in the fact, that the Records, though believed to be entire — 



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no part apparently lost or missing — are so meagre in detail, so destitute of 
the "news of the day," that it would require an imaginative, if not a creat- 
ive talent, to produce from them an " interesting tale." Facts, however, as 
far as they are furnished hy our predecessors, will be laid before you, and 
those at this time cannot be uninteresting. 

The records of our institution show that its original organization was in 
the year 1737; a number of Irishmen having then associated under the 
name of The Irish Society, and laid the foundation of the fraternal charity, 
the care of whieh has descended into our hands. It is pleasant and grati- 
fying to see that the important designs of the founders are still recognized 
by the practice of their successors at the present day. An extract from 
the preamble to their rules and orders, will give some insight to the motives 
which induced the movement we are met to celebrate. 

The preamble runs thus : — 

" Whereas, several gentlemen, merchants and others of the Irish nation, 
residing in Boston, in New England, from an affectionate and compassion- 
ate concern for their countrymen in these parts, who may be reduced by 
sickness, shipwreck, old age, and other infirmities and unforeseen accidents, 
have thought fit to form themselves into a charitable society, for the relief 
of such of their poor and indigent countrymen, without any design of not 
contributing towards the provision of the town poor in general, as usual." 

This shows, in the clearest manner, that our worthy predecessors 
possessed the right kind of spirit. The language of this preamble is as 
broad as the mantle of charity itself ; wide enough to cover and bring within 
the pale of relief, the unfortunate subject of distress, under any of the " ills 
that flesh is heir to," provided he be one of their countrymen ; and it will be 
noticed, that though this charity is only for Irishmen, its promoters declare 
explicitly that they have not " any design of not contributing towards the 
provision of the town poor, in general, as usual." 

The first article of the rules and orders is a recapitulation, in substance, 
of part of the preamble, declaring to whom it is intended this charity shall 
be appropriated. The next article is of another character ; it points out 
those to whom this charity shall not be extended. First, — amongst the 
exempts are placed "all persons of evil fame or repute"; next, "all persons 
reduced in other countries, and having suffered no misfortune in their 
passage hither " ; then, " all Irishmen or of Irish extraction, being capable 
and invited to joyne in this charitable undertaking and refusing the same.' ' 
Here, my friends, is a clause the spirit of which it would be no harm to 
have operate on some of the Irishmen of the present day. Our founders 



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evidently considered it a disgrace for an Irishman, who possessed the ability 
to contribute, to keep himself back from assisting in this most laudable 
undertaking, and took this means of showing their feelings, rendering such 
unfit subjects of the attention or charity of the Society. I am no advocate 
for prescriptive rules or laws, nor is it likely that any such will ever be 
proposed or adopted amongst us ; but, were it possible that every Irishman 
in this vicinity, " being capable," (as expressed one hundred years ago,) 
would feel for himself that he had not performed all the duties incumbent 
on him, so long as he permitted himself to be a stranger to our Society, a 
result would be produced of a gratifying character. 

The remainder of these rules and orders is devoted entirely to the 
internal police of the Society; providing, among other things, for the 
election of officers, the management of funds, and the distribution of 
charity. There is nothing in all this that would recompense you for 
sitting to hear it read over. One provision, however, in the eighth article, 
I may recur to hereafter. 

The next thing, found on our record book, is a list of the names of the 
members present and paying, at the first, and various succeeding meetings, 
showing nothing more than the name and the sum paid for admission on 
those occasions. There seem to have been at the first meeting (one hun- 
dred years ago this day) twenty-six members, who contributed £17 : 10s., 
towards the funds. It will not take long to read over these names, a 
compliment certainly not too great to their memory. Many of them, I 
think, are names that are now extinct in this city ; some of them may be 
inherited by those of the present day, who do not know, or who might be 
unwilling to acknowledge, or whom we might not be desirous to have 
establish the fact, that they are of Irish extraction. Such is the mutability 
of human affairs, and the changes produced in a century. 

The names of the twenty-six original members of this Society are 
as follows : — Robert Duncan, Andrew Knox, Nathaniel Walsh, Joseph 
St. Lawrence, Daniel McFfall, Edward Allen, William Drummond, 
William Freeland, Daniel Gibbs, John Noble, Adam Boyd, William 
Stewart, Daniel Neal, James Mayes, Samuel Moor, Philip Mortimer, 
James Egart, George Glen, Peter Pelham, John Little, Archibald 
Thomas, Edward Alderchurch, James Clark, John Clark, Thomas 
Bennett, and Patrick Walker. 

So far as an inheritance in any of these names can be established by 

honorable men of the present day, we should be most happy in receiving 

them into fellowship. The descendants of those men whom the Society 

must honor and revere, so long as it remains oat of the "receptacle of 

things lost upon earth," have a claim on our kind feelings, the validity 
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of which will never be questioned nor dishonored, by those who succeed to 
the privilege of dispensing the charity established by their fathers. 

The list of names of the new members, present at the different meetings, 
is continued from time to time, till October 14th, 1741, during which time 
something over ^£100 was contributed as admission fees. There seems, 
then, to be a break-off till 14th July, 1761, nearly twenty years. This 
would seem to imply that the Society was almost extinct, during that 
period; but a sheet, in another part of the book, accounts for part of 
this time. There, under date of July, 1741, an order is passed, imposing 
a fine on the managers for absence from the quarterly meetings ; and under 
date of April, 1744, the managers are permitted, by an order, to offer a 
" reasonable excuse," instead of their money for non-attendance. Under 
the same date, 1744, is another order or law passed, all of which shows 
that a regular meeting had been held at that time. 

From 1761 to — 75, regular entries are made of the meetings and doings 
of the Society, but from the latter date till October, — 84, it does not 
appear that any meetings were held. This is good evidence that our 
countrymen of that day were not idle spectators of the great and successful 
effort made by America for its independence. Irishmen took their part in 
the noble struggle, and embarked in it with their whole soul. Social 
enjoyments were not permitted to interfere with the great work, to the 
accomplishing of which they had joined in pledging " their lives, their 
fortunes, and their sacred honor." When heart and hand and blood were 
required in the cause of liberty, they contributed their share most cheer- 
fully ; and when the cause had triumphed, and they rested from their 
labor, one of the first acts of the Society, in resuming its meetings and 
intercourse, was to congratulate each other on the success which had 
attended their efforts. 

On the night of the first meeting after the war, the President, Mr. 
William Mackay, delivered a short address, in which he congratulates his 
brethren on the " joyful occasion" (as he expressed it) "of meeting 
again after nearly ten years' absence, occasioned by a dreadful and ruinous 
war — on having conquered one of the greatest nations on the globe, so far 
as to have peace and independence ; " and concludes in these words : 
" May our friends, countrymen in Ireland, behave like the brave Americans, 
till they recover their liberties." Such were the feelings under which the 
members of this Society resumed their meetings on the close of the war 
of the Revolution. 

It would be a most grateful task to lay before you the particular part 
taken by Irishmen in this country, in the great drama performed on 
ireedom's stage in those days in which every man who had a soul worth 



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saving was an actor. The part taken by any of the members of this 
Society is not matter of record on our books ; nor indeed should we 
expect that it would be. True merit is never its own trumpeter, and as 
they fought for the common cause, and received the reward of their valor 
in common with native citizens, they would not be disposed to make any 
particular note of how much they contributed to the promotion of liberty. 

Some things, however, we do know, which are worth noticing. We do 
know that the leading spirits of those days, who were deputed to set the 
machinery of the new government in motion, knew of their own knowl- 
edge, and saw with their own eyes, that Irishmen were entitled to be 
constitutionally adopted as free citizens. They were so adopted ; and thus 
their merits and services were honorably acknowledged and rewarded. We 
know also that the prayer of President Mackay's address, " May our 
friends, countrymen in Ireland, behave like the brave Americans, till they 
recover their liberties," was not unheard. The spark elicited from the 
first flint and steel that came in collision on Bunker Hill, kindled a fire 
that beamed across the Atlantic. It gleamed on Ireland, and by its light 
her patriots saw clearly that their tyrant rulers were not invincible ; that 
which at first was but a light, became a warmth — a heat — and found fuel 
of the right kind so abundant in the breasts of Irishmen that ignition was 
fhe natural consequence. The fire became a flame, which for a time 
threatened the destruction of English rule in that country as well as this ; 
but, by the explosion of 1798, hopes that had been raised high, were for 
a time prostrated. 

My friends, I have somewhat accidentally carried myself and your 
attention across the Atlantic ; let us remain there for a moment. Let us 
invoke the aid of memory to waft us over the dim path of by-gone years, 
to the home of our forefathers and the scenes in which we ourselves first 
inhaled the breath of heaven. Let her place us once more amongst the 
green hills that delighted the first visions of our infancy, and amongst the 
joyful playmates with whom we first caroled on the lawn. Let her bring 
before us the time when we were as light-hearted and free as the lark that 
soared over our heads, or the thrush and the linnet that joined our song 
from the neighboring hedge. Let her place us at the parental hearth, 
where, seemingly, we may be passing the long winter night in thoughtless 
indolence, but where, in reality, we were unconsciously inhaling the very 
spirit of Liberty. Let her bring up the time when stories of the American 
war were told round by the seniors ; or tear-stirring songs, founded on 
incidents in the rebellion of 1798, were sung by the juniors of the family. 
Let us there remain, and refresh ourselves with recollections of the days 
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With the mind filled with such recollections, we can easily realize that 
the prayer of President Mackay, in 1784, was not uttered in vain. What — 
can you tell me — tended more to promote the organization of the Society 
of United Irishmen, than the success which attended the revolt in America? 
That success, and the rational use which was made of it, kindled hopes in 
the bosoms of Irishmen, which to have realized, they were willing to do 
as Americans had done, — risk their lives, their fortunes, and their honor 
on the cast. They did so. By the aid of memory, we can even now see 
them quit the labor of the spring half completed, and, reversing the order 
of the times foretold of in the sacred book, turn their pruning-hooks into 
spears, and the hay-fork and scythe into weapons of war. Thus armed, 
and their hat adorned with a cockade of nature's own green and white, 
supplied from the hawthorn hedge, we can see them muster in tens, in 
twenties, in fifties, in hundreds, and in thousands ; and with the same 
spirit which actuated those who took possession of the heights of Bunker 
on the 16th of June, march to meet in open fight the mercenary soldiers 
of their oppressors. To some of us, memory can show the very conflict, 
and the field made gory by the blood of some of the noblest sons of Ireland, 
and the boldest of England. To others of us, then too young to take a 
part, she can renew the distant roar of the cannon, — the breathless anxiety 
of women and old men for the news from the battle, — the exciting hopes 
of victory, — the trembling dread of defeat, — the whisper on the wings of 
the wind that defeat has ensued, — the appalling annunciation that there is 
jealousy, if not treason, in the camp, — the flight of the discomfited, — the 
approach of the victor with a torch in one hand and a rope in the other. 
We can even see the patriot's dwelling in flames, and reduced to ashes, 
and his wife and little ones, if spared, sent aflrift on the world, — the 
patriot himself, if haply escaped from the field of battle, suspended like 
a do"-, at the corner of the street; and, as if that was not enough, the next 
hour his head stuck upon a halbert and lashed up for exhibition on a 
lamp-post. All this we can see, and much more ; much to weep over, and 
much that, as Irishmen, we might exult in ; but, alas ! too much over 
which we will permit the veil of time to remain undisturbed. 

As freemen ourselves, Ave must regret the failure of the struggle then 
made, in the trust, that had it been successful, a rational use would have 
been made of the liberty sought for; but, let us now hope that the 
already fertile fields of our native country may never again be fattened 
with the blood of her sons, shed in an intestine war. Let the strife here- 
after be a mental one. Let knowledge and intelligence be disseminated 
universally. Let the school-master be the drill-sergeant, under whose 
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of freemen ; and then we may expect to see ranks of " United Irishmen " 
that would be invincible — before whom no despot could stand, and over 
whom political demagogues could exercise no influence. Ireland, with the 
possession of general intelligence spread amongst all classes, (as we hope 
is now in progress of attainment,) would be a spot as ungenial to tyrants 
as her soil is said to be to toads and reptiles. Let us imitate President 
Mackay, in uttering a prayer for our native country, and let it be in part 
in his words : " May our countrymen in Ireland behave like the wise 
citizens of our adopted city and commonwealth, in procuring education 
for all her children, and thus make sure of obtaining the liberties which 
Americans make sure of perpetuating." 

I will now leave this digression, and ask you to return with me, for a 
few minutes, to the Society's records. Before we made the trip to the 
other side of the water, I had got as far as 1784, and now, to reach the 
subject next to be noticed, must, in military phrase, countermarch to 1772. 
In that year, on the 11th of February, I find that amongst others, John 
Beane was admitted a member of this Society, and from that time forward 
there are but few meetings on record in which his name does not stand, as 
being present and paying his regular contribution. On the 17th of March, 
1796, he was elected Secretary, and from that time till 1821, was annually 
re-elected without any intermission. During this period, (twenty-six 
years,) the books have an appearance of neatness and good taste much 
superior to anything of a prior date. In 1819 an assistant secretary was 
chosen, but Mr. Beane was still relied on as the principal. In 1821 he 
declined re-election, received a vote of thanks for his excellent services, 
and was afterwards held and considered an honorary member. Mr. Beane 
lived and was amongst us till very lately. In 1834 his name is mentioned 
on our books, thus showing him to have been connected with the Society 
sixty-two years, nearly two-thirds the whole period of its existence. He 
and the Society were mutually proud of the connection which the Ruler 
of all things permitted to be continued so long ; and as there are many 
who now hear me who enjoyed a personal intimacy with the good old man, 
it has been thought that the knowledge of the time of the commencement 
of his connection with the institution would be acceptable. 

In 1809 an act of incorporation was granted by the Legislature to this 
Society ; a circumstance which gave the most solemn sanction to all the 
past doings of the institution, and rendered to its financial matters after- 
wards a degree of solidity and permanence not otherwise obtainable. 
From that time the number of members seem to have increased more 
rapidly than at any former period, a fact very gratifying so long as our 
meetings are for the legitimate purposes for which the institution was 
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After this time, there is little on the books that would be worth your 
notice now. One hundred years hence something may be gathered out 
of this portion of the records that will interest those who then fill our 
places ; but things in which any of us have acted a part, cannot be called 
matters of antiquity, nor could I hope to make their repetition here 
interesting. I will therefore not follow our records any farther, but will 
return to a subject noticed in the early part of this Address. 

You may recollect that in noticing the first rules and orders of this 
Society, as adopted in 1737, I said the eighth article thereof might 
be again referred to in the course of these remarks ; and I rejoice that 
the subject of it can be noticed here and now, under circumstances so 
much improved since the time that article was written. 

The founders of this Society were Protestants ; and though we find 
rliem to have been fully imbued with the spirit of active charity and 
benevolence, yet the bigotry and intolerance of the age had its tyrant 
hold upon theim Under these blighting influences, they make it one of 
the original rules and orders (Art. 8) that all the officers must be Protest- 
ants ; showing that the unhappy spirit left in Ireland at the end of the 
wars of King James and his son-in-law, in the preceding century, had 
found its way to this side of the Atlantic 1 , and intruded itself into the 
most holy of the works of Irishmen. "We must have charity enough, 
however, to charge this to the spirit of the times, and not to the individuals 
who commenced an institution that we take pride in helping to perpetuate. 
I cannot find any formal revocation of this order; but, under date of 1764, 
a revised copy of the rules and orders is on record, and in the article which 
corresponds with this reprehensible one, no such qualification is required, 
though all others mentioned in the first are copied verbatim in the last. 
They must, therefore, at this time have seen the impropriety of that 
stipulation in the article in question. 

If a Catholic stood now in the place I have the honor of occupying, it 
is most likely he would not be disposed to follow this subject any farther. 
Having stated the fact as found on record, he might conclude that he had 
done his duty, and leave those acquainted with the conduct of the Society 
for the last quarter of a century to draw their own inferences. He might 
be disposed to think that from his mouth "comparisons might be odious." 
I feel no such delicacy ; I feel proud, as all of you must do, at the spirit 
of toleration which pervades the present age, and that acts of intolerance 
and sectarian tyranny are becoming matters of history much more than 
of daily practice. 

The human mind is prone to justify itself in acts of retaliation. It 
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the Christian maxim and return " good for evil." When men have had 
their rights invaded, they sometimes think it an apology for themselves 
in committing a like transgression. Whether the founders of this Society 
were under any such influence when they adopted the eighth article, I 
know not > but there are inquiries which may be made, and to which an 
answer can be obtained. 

Of late years Catholics have been largely in the majority in this Society, 
and of course have had the control of the management of its affairs. 
How have they conducted under this change of circumstances'? Have 
they proposed or passed any laws that none but themselves should have 
the direction of its affairs or be eligible to office therein 1 No ; no such 
thing. Have they in any way withheld the sympathy or assistance of the 
Society from a Protestant applicant, because he was such ? No such 
instance is known of. Have they in practice excluded their Protestant 
brethren from honor and office amongst them, though no rule or order is 
made to that effect ? Let the history of the Society for the last twenty- 
five years answer the question. In the persons who have had the honor 
to preside over you during the last twenty-five years, ten have been 
Protestants and five have been Catholics. The ten Protestants filled the 
chair twenty years, and the five Catholics five years. Yet, during all this 
time, it is believed that a majority at all meetings have been of the 
Catholic persuasion. 

The time has been when we almost supposed it dangerous to speak of 
Catholic and Protestant at the same time ; but, thank God, those days 
are gone by. A better era has arrived. A difference in religious opinion 
aYnongst the intelligent of our countrymen is now no barrier to private 
or social intercourse ; nor is confidence withheld, though we do not 
worship at the same altar. We all profess to be Christians ; we all 
follow, at however humble a distance, the same great Leader, whose 
first great principle is Charity. We belong to a Society organized and 
perpetuated for purposes of charity, and he must be an unprofitable 
member, either of our Society or of a Church, under any name you please, 
Catholic or Protestant, who presumes to hold his brother inferior to him- 
self, because he sees fit to worship his God in a manner the other has 
never been taught to — : I say taught to ; for if you make an examination 
you will not find one in a hundred of us who has chosen even a form of 
religion for himself. We follow that of our fathers, and we are right in 
doing so in the first place. If our own mind undergoes a conviction 
that the creed we have been taught to believe in is not the best, then let 
us, like men and freemen, change to any that we may conscientiously 
think better. Till then, let each be honored in following the creed of his 



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father, and the religion which he nursed, as it were, from the breasts of 
his mother. 

Having thus imperfectly disposed of such subjects as seemed to present 
themselves from the records and history of our Society, I hope to be 
indulged, whilst your time is further occupied, in noticing some which 
are interesting to us as Irishmen. 

We will now take a glance at the situation the members of this Society 
find themselves in, on their first arrival in this country ; and this may lead 
us to notice the duties they owe to themselves, and to the community in 
which they take up a residence, and of which they become a part. 

Tliere are some situations in life, which, I believe, cannot be described. 
They must be felt and experienced, to be understood. Such is that of a 
stranger landing on a foreign shore, friendless, and nearly penniless. What 
thoughts fill the mind ; what hopes, what anxieties ! None can tell so 
truly, that those who never felt could understand; but, those who have 
experienced, can well recollect their own feelings. Many of us, by mem- 
ory's eye, can see the picture distinctly, and, as a subject set strongly in 
contrast with succeeding times, can contemplate it now, with pleasure and 
with pride. 

I think it will not be denied that many foreigners, on their first arrival 
in this country, feel very much disappointed ; various causes having com- 
bined to make them sketch out at home, a picture of America in their 
" mind's eye," which they find to be any thing but a correct likeness, when 
things are compared face to face. Rich as this country is in resources, 
and 'all-bountiful as she is in remunerating the working-man, such riches 
and bounty are comparatively nothing to what they are said to be, in the 
exaggerated and wicked statements that are sometimes circulated on the 
other side of the water. The anecdote of the stranger, who, on landing, 
refused to stoop for a single dollar which lay in his way, because he said 
there were handfuls of them a little further along, is too truly illustrative 
of the feeling with which many arrive on these shores. Many however, 
come with other views; they come with habits inured to the closest 
industry, and with their minds made up to use those habits to the 
best advantage. These are the very salt of the earth ; they are a blessing 
to themselves, and a rich acquisition to the land of their adoption. They 
are content if they get employment, and only complain of one thing. 

A complaint is somewhat general, on the part of Irishmen, that they 
are met with an appearance of suspicion and jealousy, which they did not 
expect; a circumstance which must disturb the peace of sensitive and 
honorable minds; but which would not annoy them so much if they 
could only see a good reason by which to account for it. For part of this 



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dry reception, good reasons can be given, but some of it must be placed 
under the head of prejudice. 

Part of the cause of this complaint on the one hand, and of the shyness 
and jealousy on the other, is to be found in the nature of man all over the 
world. In all states, from the most civilized to the least so, a feeling of 
self-importance exists, which does for each very well at home, but is rather 
an unprofitable article of exportation. When this feeling is brought into 
contact or collision, as is the case when the natives of any country are 
visited by foreign emigrants, that state of things is produced which is 
annoying and vexatious to both, but which is, and always must be most 
troublesome to the weaker party. This fact is not known to our country- 
men when they leave home. They have always looked upon our " own 
dear country " as the very pearl of perfection ; and all its sons — and 
daughters too, I had almost said — as the very best fellows in the world. 
Nothing wrong but the government. 

Now this is all very well, and I will be one of the last who would try to 
argue my countrymen into any other belief: but here is the mischief; 
when we come here, we meet with a people who entertain very similar 
views of themselves, and with this addition, they find no fault with their 
form of government, whatever they may say of its administration. Hence, 
the very same feeling which makes foreigners complain of a prejudice, 
existing against them, is a fair apology, in part, for that shyness and appa- 
rent suspicious manner, with which they think they are met on their first 
arrival. 

Though the encountering of this prejudice, which seems sometimes to be 
levelled more against Irishmen than any other class of foreigners, is a great 
annoyance to many ; yet, on mature reflection, we cannot say, that there is 
not good ground for it, besides the natural one just mentioned. Amongst 
the countless number, who arrive yearly on these shores, there are too 
many to whom the language of the poet may be truly applied ; they are 
patriots for once, because 

" They left their country, for their country's good." 

Too many there are, who were the very scum of society at home, and 
who will be a dead weight, if not a nuisance, in any place in which they 
may make their abode. 

Such visitants coming year after year into any civilized community, are 
sufficient to make all strangers be watched, till their individual character 
is found out; and though this "searching operation" is very annoying to 
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the chaff from the wheat. It must be done ; and the worthy amongst us 
may rejoice, that acquaintance and knowledge of individual character, is 
all that is necessary to place such on an equal footing with the natives 
amongst whom we dwell and associate. 

For this generous and just treatment on the part of America, after 
acquaintance is formed, Ireland, through her sons, makes ample payment 
by their industry, enterprise, and talents. 

We are all willing to work, and some of us at a species of labor with which 
a lazy man will avoid cultivating any acquaintance. Wherever the spirit 
of improvement is found laying its plans, there the head and the hand of 
the Irishman are found executing them. If the forest is to be cleared, his 
arm wields the axe. If hills are to be reduced, valleys elevated, mountains 
or rivers tunnelled, whose hands are depended on to perform the laborious 
toil ? If, in the quaint language of one of these laborers, the " globe is to 
be new modeled," that portion of it at least known as the western hemis- 
phere, will it be done by the native, or by the foreign inhabitant? But, 
though a conditition of labor is that of Irishmen generally in New England, 
and though it is one they are neither ashamed nor afraid of, yet, such is not 
the condition of all our brethren, who reside in, and become citizens of these 
United States. In other States, we find them in professions and em- 
ployments where intellect is the material ( if I may so express it ) to 
work upon — in the merchant's counting room — at the bar — in the 
pulpit — in the practice of the healing art — on the bench — in Congress, 
even at the Senate board of the United States. In all these different 
situations and places do we find Irishmen, and in all, doing themselves 
credit, and conferring the highest possible benefits on their adopted 
country. 

One of the first duties we owe to ourselves and to the public, is to live 
upon our own resources ; to be, like the country of our adoption, 
independent, and to feel and to live, as if we knew we were so, as far 
as reason and the nature of things permit. Absolute independence, I do 
not of course mean ; such a state is neither attainable nor desirable. The 
millionnaire, with his untold gold, depends as much on the baker for his 
daily loaf, as that baker does on his customer for the shilling that pays for 
it ; we must live by and for each other. Still, there is a degree of com- 
parative independence so necessary in the present organization of society, 
that he who does not possess it, can never be a free man in any country. 

Now, I hold that this state of comparative independence is within the 
reach of every Irishman who comes amongst us, who is of sound body 
and mind. That circumstance or state of things which enables us to give 
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them, and which is valuable to us, is the state of comparative independence ; 
and to qualify us for admission into this state nature has made ample 
provision. She has given us strength to labor, and freedom of limb and 
person. Exercising these natural gifts, every man can do something that 
is valuable to some other man ; and by judiciously using the compensation 
thus earned we can put ourselves in possession of all the necessaries of life 
to begin with ; and a prudent economy and living ivithin our means, will 
enable us in time to command the comforts and elegancies with which this 
country abounds. Possessing and enjoying rationally this comparative 
independence, we have a natural wealth, which, so long as we have health, 
no vicissitude can remove or take away. 

But this " natural wealth," like that which is more tangible, maybe 
squandered, — it may be spent for a useless, or to a bad purpose. And 
whether we labor to the extent of nature's ability at " sowing the wind," 
or at a useful and profitable employment, and then dissipate our earnings, 
makes no difference in the end ; a man will become independent, or rather 
absolutely dependent as soon by the latter as by the former course. The 
first may be called idiocy ; the last is wickedness. 

The very worst form of this species of wickedness is intemperance. In 
making a few remarks on this subject I would beg to assure you that it is 
not my purpose to read you a " temperance lecture ; " but, knowing the 
fatal effects of intemperance on the degree of necessary independence I 
have been speaking of, I cannot permit the occasion to pass without saying 
a few words upon it. Probably few of us practice or profess total abstin- 
ence, though I have no doubt if we did so we should be the gainers ; but, 
if each and all of us would give our countenance and aid to the praise- 
worthy attempt recently commenced, and now in successful operation in 
this city, amongst our countrymen, by cutting off the use of " spirituous 
liquors " we should do more real good to Erin's sons here, particularly 
new comers, than could possibly be done in any other way. 

I have called intemperance the worst form in which our natural wealth 
can be squandered. The worst, because it not only swallows up the coin 
produced at nature's own mint, but it ruins the machinery that might 
produce more, and mixes the pure metal with an alloy that entirely changes 
its character. The pure gold is converted into the most filthy dross, and 
the die copied in God's own image is bruised, defaced, deformed and 
ruined. 

Though I hope I do not speak to any such in this assembly, yet, certain 
it is there have been many, too many, intemperate Irishmen in this com- 
munity ; and as certain is it that nothing so much retards their advance 
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earnings, a small sum taken off for whiskey leaves little to procure the 
necessaries of life. The consequence is that a system of low, penurious 
living has to be adopted, alike discreditable and debasing. Habitations 
having neither comfort nor convenience are taken up with ; and the whole 
habits of the man settle him into a quagmire, from which nothing short 
of a miracle can extricate him. No man can stand still. All must 
advance or retrograde. The natural motion of one caught in the slough 
of intemperance only sinks him deeper and deeper in the mire. To-day 
he may feel safe, though he has indulged but little ; to-morrow he may feel 
equally safe, under the same circumstances ; the next day, and the next, 
and the next again, produce nothing very alarming ; yet each is adding its 
mite towards the weight destined to crush the unhappy individual to the 
earth, — to sink him in a gulf from which there is no escape. 

If men would permit themselves for a moment to reflect, and compare 
the results arising from the labor of those who do, and those who do not 
indulge in the use of spirituous drink, they would not hesitate long on 
which of the sides to rank themselves. They only need to compare — they 
only need to place the picture before their own eyes, with their own hands, 
and it will hardly require a second look, to convince a man of sound mind 
which he should select as a model for his own life. 

The man who earns his dollar, or his two dollars a day, and spends 
regularly a fourpence or a ninepence therefrom for spirituous drink, makes 
an inroad on his income which he would resist most strenuously were it 
attempted by his employer. It may be he can spare it, — it may be he has 
enough left to procure the necessaries of life without it. Grant that he 
has ; but, how much better would it be if he laid away this ninepence in 
an accumulating fund till the end of the year. Trifling and insignificant 
as it is, one year's collection of this kind might be the foundation stone on 
which he could erect his independence for life. Forty or fifty dollars to a 
man who has no more is an important sum ; it is a sum, which if well 
invested, will assist the owner's industry not a little. I could point out to 
you, individuals who many years ago commenced business for themselves 
on sums no larger, and to whom that capital has been like the widow's 
cruse of oil ; it has never been exhausted ; and large and creditable busi- 
ness has grown out of it. Had that sum been spent daily for grog, the 
owners might to this day, have been dependent on others, and old age 
found them candidates for charity, if, indeed, as daily spirit-drinkers, they 
could ever have reached an old age. 

The waste of money occasioned by daily tippling, is to be deplored in 
every light we view it in. It is tapping the vine in the stock ; drawing to 
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through the branches, would produce a foliage, a fruit, delightful to con- 
template, a harvest rich and bountiful, an independence to the owner, and a 
blessing to society. Let the stock of the vine be guarded — let the roots be 
nourished — the fruit will come abundantly, and the tree will attain a strength 
which the blasts of winter cannot injure or affect. By tapping the trunk, 
you not only kill the fruit and destroy the foliage, but the naked, wasting- 
branches are seen to crumble and fall to the ground one after another. 
The breeze of heaven which fanned and invigorated, when the stock was 
sound, is now the messenger of destruction ; and after demolishing branch 
after branch, and limb after limb, finally prostrates the whole tree, a 
mingled heap of ruins. The lord of the forest falls — is prostrate — is an 
incumbrance, a nuisance on the grounds that he formerly adorned. 

What are the political duties that Irishmen owe to themselves, and to 
this community ? They are few, plain, easily understood, yet very impor- 
tant. I will, in as brief a manner as possible, submit my own views on the 
subject, after having noticed some opinions which prevail amongst certain 
citizens. 

It is very erroneously held by some would-be politicians here, that 
Irishmen are a kind of political intruders, wherever they present them- 
selves at the ballot-box, under any circumstances ; that being born and 
brought up under a monarchical government, they never can feel interested 
in, or be good supporters of a republican one; that, as this is not the land 
of their birth, it cannot be that of their affections ; that, though they 
are very convenient and necessary, as " hewers of wood and drawers of 
water," yet it is the madness of folly, to ever permit one of them to become 
a free man. Some legislators amongst ourselves have exposed their own 
limited capacity, and the natural tendency that small minds have towards 
tyrannical measures, by obtaining leave to report on the expediency of 
altering the naturalization laws, so as to prevent Irishmen from becoming 
free citizens. Such attempts, however, have as yet met with their merited 
fate, and will never fare better in the halls of American legislation, until 
such puny minds are much more numerous than they are at present. The 
delusion, too, has lately been carried so far, in a neighboring city, that a 
party or association was got up, called, I think, " The Native American 
Democrats," the very object and wish of all its members, whether as 
individuals, or as a party, being, to disfranchise all foreigners, and render 
them incompetent hereafter to exercise any of the rights or privileges of 
freemen in this country. To such legislators and " native democrats " it is 
not necessary to say much ; their numbers are small — their views are 
small — and their success will be small. There is no need of foreigners by 
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is so preposterous, and the object is so unworthy of a free country, that 
there is no great clanger that liberal-minded or enlightened men will take 
any part in promoting it. 

Were it necessary to answer these our enemies, (for I cannot call the 
man by a milder term, who would rob me of the use of my natural political 
rights,) I would premise by saying, that I am not — have never been — and 
will never be, the eulogist or flatterer of Irishmen, or the champion to 
break a lance with any and every body, who should say that we were any 
thing else than immaculate. I know we have our faults; I believe we 
have some faults that are in a measure, peculiar to us as a nation ; but I 
believe, also, we have some little virtues, that may pass under the same 
denomination. I believe we are no better as a nation, taken all in all, than 
the inhabitants of many other countries in the civilized world; but I 
believe there are none under similar circumstances, much better. Believing 
and confessing so much generally, I would then point to some charges 
against us, that are not true — which have not facts to support them. I 
would say, that though we were born and brought up under a monarchical 
government, our love for that government is not so great as to be proverb- 
ial ; therefore, that circumstance does not prove as a foregone conclusion, 
that we cannot feel interested in, or ever be supporters of a good republican 
government. I would say, that though this is not the land of our birth, 
and though Irishmen would not if they could, and could not if they would, 
cease to love and recollect the land in which they first gazed on the light of 
heaven ; yet it does not follow, that they cannot love this. Here Ave are, 
by our own choice, by a choice made by most of us at years of discretion, 
and after due deliberation — a choice never repented of by any of us who 
remain; for the discontented can generally find some means of getting 
back : moreover, the most tender ties of humanity bind us to America. 
It is the native country of our children, as well as the adopted one of 
ourselves. Shall we- be suspected of being capable of turning our hand 
against a land towards which such are our relations ! The very idea must 
come from a source as impure, as it is blind and ignorant. Shall the 
father of a family of native Americans be told, that there is reason to fear 
he may betray the interests of the country which his children claim as 
theirs, and in which he hopes to see them assist in perpetuating institutions, 
sacred to the cause of liberty ! The imputation is foul, and betrays a want 
of knowledge of human nature, unpardonable in any man who undertakes 
to dictate to, or legislate for the public. I would say, further, that though 
many of us are " hewers of wood and drawers of water/' and though we 
are willing to be so under certain conditions, yet we, in a measure, coincide 
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be muzzled which treadeth out the corn " ; and in a community like this, 
where every man has in some way or other, to hew his own wood and to 
draw his own water, we think it comes with an ill grace, to tell a fellow- 
laborer who assists by choice in tilling this field, that he ought to have 
fewer privileges than he who dropped into it by chance. Much more 
might be said, but I will not take up your time further. 

But, though foreigners have nothing to apprehend, it is not the less 
imperative on them as a duty, to use great moderation and discretion in 
whatever part they may take in the politics of the country. 

When qualified according to the laws of the land, let each use his right, 
both of opinion and of action, with all firmness and independence ; but, 
whilst he avoids the slime-pit of the truckling slave, who votes as his 
patron or assumed political master may dictate, let him also shun the 
course of the noisy, partisan demagogue, who, when having formed an 
opinion as he thinks of the " true blue " kind, attacks all he meets, in 
season or out of season, to convert them into a belief of his own political 
creed. 

That Irishmen should ever be considered as intruders, when exercising 
their right of suffrage after being duly naturalized, is a proposition never 
to be entertained for a moment. Our right is perfect; not only legal, but 
just, and in accordance with the true principles of the rights of man and 
republican government. And, if ever in this country the naturalization 
laws should be abrogated, or so altered as to impose a much longer 
preliminary residence as a necessary qualification, such abrogation or 
alteration will be at the expense of the removal of an important under- 
pinning from the corner-stone on which rests liberty's temple, and with a 
prospect close in view that republican government is more a thing in 
name than in practice. 

There are some good republicans, however, who talk with honest 
patriotism on this subject, and whose opinions are to be respected. 
Circumstances have happened which have created a fear in the minds 
of such, that the time might come when the purity of election might be 
contaminated by foreigners, and that nothing but more restrictive laws 
would prevent disastrous consequences to the institutions of the country. 
I agree with such, that in some places alarming circumstances have 
happened, and may happen again ; but I by no means 'agree with such as 
to the cause, or as to the usefulness of the remedy which they point out. 

They say, that hosts of very ignorant Irishmen have become voters, and 
thereby been placed on the same elevation flt elections, with the most 
enlightened free-born citizens. True — there is no doubt of it. They say 
a very ignorant man can never be a good freeman, nor exercise the elective 



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franchise .by his own judgment; that he will always be the tool of some 
other! True — that is granted also. They say that if he is so, he is 
also apathetic on political subjects, if left to himself. Any man must of 
necessity be in a measure intelligent, before he takes interest in, or troubles 
himself much about politics. I hold that any,foreigner who will of his own 
volition — free, unadvised and unrestrained — take all the preliminary trouble 
and expense now required by law to obtain naturalization, shows, by the very 
act, that he is sufficiently intelligent to be a brother in the family of freemen. 
A man, ignorant as some Irishmen are said to be, cares not a straw who 
rules, or what principle governs ; and, if left to himself, would never take 
the necessary trouble to qualify him to give a vote ; but the native partisan, 
who starts on the principle that " all is fair in politics/' sees that he can use 
the stranger to his own advantage. He ingratiates himself into his favor, 
sometimes by appeals to the lowest passions of the lowest of his race ; 
sometimes by appeals to feelings, which, when properly exercised, are an 
honor to the highest of mankind. Having secured the ear of his victim, he 
soon convinces him that it is a wonderful great thing to be a free man, — 
that he must take measures instantly to become such, — that the laws are 
altogether too strict. — that it is a shame to require such a fine fellow to live 
five years in any country, particularly a free country, before he can vote; 
and that he, kind friend as he is, will assist him to jump through the whole 
of it. The bargain is closed, the assistance is accepted, and the only 
condition required is, "just vote as I tell you." The thing is done, the laws 
of the country are trampled on, the resident of a few months is sworn by 
his new acquaintance to be one of five years, the money is advanced to pay 
the court-fee with, and thus a man who would never, of his own will and 
desire, have taken the trouble, or, on any account, been at the expense 
required to obtain naturalization, is made a tool, a most vile instrument, 
and for a most wicked purpose. Thus, the purity of election is violated. 
The case supposed as that of one, may be that of thousands ; and thereby 
the election returns may be converted into a list of names that could not be 
read or written by the persons who brought about the result. This is a 
great, a frightful evil ; a state of things deeply to be deplored by every 
freeman ; and a state of things which I will venture to assert, is as much 
lamented by intelligent Irishmen in the United Statee, as it can be by any 
class of native citizens. But the fault of all this, I say, is not with the 
ignorant tool who knows no better than to permit himself to be so used ; 
it is with the corrupt, mean, wicked partisan, who violates, and procures to 
be violated, the best laws of his country, — breaks down the very fence that 
surrounds and protects the garden of her constitution, — and, for some 
mercenary purpose, pollutes the very temple of liberty. 



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Gentlemen say, to cure this evil, alter or abrogate your naturalization 
laws. I say, if law will cure, alter the criminal law. Make it felony — 
punish as you would for high treason, the man, whether originally a native 
or a foreigner, who lends his aid, or who gives his money or his advice to 
assist or induce any stranger to vote at our elections, until he has fulfilled, 
to the last letter, all the requirements of the law. Let the preventive laws 
begin here, and if they catch any, they will only be the guilty ; but, if you 
abrogate the naturalization laws, you wrong the innocent, punish those who 
never offended, and inflict a wound upon the reputation of republican 
government, that never can be closed or healed up. Instead of a govern- 
ment founded upon the rights of man, and supported by men who know 
their own, and respect the rights of others, you have a government tyran- 
nizing over those rights, and trampling under foot the dearest privilege 
of freemen. 

But as I have already said, we have nothing to fear. Let foreigners do 
their duty in political matters — and nothing more than their duty — and the 
laws of the country will not very soon be altered to their prejudice. Let 
each who of himself desires to possess and exercise the privileges of a free- 
man, take, without delay, the necessary measures to qualify himself as such ; 
and, once having the right, let him use it like a freeman — use it as owing 
no accountability to any power on earth. And, whilst you would spurn 
political dictation from others, avoid imposing such dictation on any one. 
Those who do not desire to possess or exercise the right of voting for their 
rulers, ought never to be advised to trouble themselves about it ; they 
should be left to themselves. In this case, the desire to possess and the 
fitness to use, generally go together. Let no outward influence be prac- 
tised to induce to the possession, when the ability or desire to use, does 
not previously exist. Of those who would make a tool of the individual 
who cannot of necessity judge for himself, nothing more need be said. 

The situation of a man quitting his native country and assuming the 
obligations of a citizen in another, may not inaptly be compared to that 
of one leaving the parental fireside, and assuming the bonds and responsi- 
bilities of matrimony. Though the latter must be considered the stronger, 
as well as the more endearing tie; yet the claims of the former to our love 
and gratitude are nothing diminished. They only yield in importance, 
when compared with the latter. In every other view, they remain unim- 
paired. So with Irishmen here ; let them never forget the love due to their 
parent land, but let that to the land of their choice stand paramount. It is 
a goodly land, and its institutions are the pole-star and the hope of repub- 
licans all over the world. Long may it deserve and elicit such prayer and 
encomiums as that contained in the journal of one of our talented countrymen, 



66 EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 

who exclaims : " Honor to the country which offers to the stranger, on 
equal terms, free participation in all she holds clearest. Hallowed be the 
institutions that open to talent a free field, and where honest ambition 
knows no bound except that of equal laws.'' 

My friends, love of country is a virtue — it is almost a religious principle. 
In reading the fifth commandment of the decalogue, I believe an alteration 
may be made without any impiety. " Honor thy father and thy mother, 
and the land of thy birth ; that thy days may be long and happy in the land 
of thy choice." 

Let us hope — let us pray — that peace and amity may remain forever 
between the governments of our native and our adopted country. But if, 
in the vicissitudes of human affairs, other relations should grow up, let us 
be ready, with our lives, our fortunes, and our honor, to protect and defend 
the land we live in. To the Eagle of America, let us verify the motto of 
our Society : "Fostered under thy wings, we will die in thy defence." 




CENTENNIAL EXERCISES. . 67 

ORIGINAL ODE. 

BY THOMAS POWER, ESQ. 

There rose a light in western sky 

One hundred years ago ; 
It beamed from Pity's melting eye, 

To calm the sufferer's woe : 
The exile from his native shore 

Beheld the gentle light, 
And dear the hope its promise bore 

Upon the wanderer's sight. 

From hearts that felt a brother's pain, 

The holy bond was given, 
To whisper soft compassion's strain, 

As breathing airs of Heaven : 
And then the tearful exile found, 

While hope his bosom fills, 
The harp that gives its sweetest sound, 

Was tuned on Erin's hills. 

When tired and faint the wanderer finds 

The soul of pity here, 
The wounded heart it gently binds, 

And dries the trembling tear. 
Be mercy's free and sacred boon 

Upon our altars laid, 
In fortune's bright, unclouded noon, 

Or sorrow's deepening shade. 

The thoughts that spring from kindred hearts, 

That own a common tie, 
Shall live till life's best hope departs, 

Or sorrow's tear be dry ; 
And memory still shall linger round 

The thought that wildly thrills ; 
The harp that gives its sweetest sound, 

Was tuned on Erin's hills 

PRAYER. 

BY REV. MR. PIERPONT. 

Note. — The Odes written for the occasion, were sung by a select choir, assisted 
by the band. 1st Ode, p. 46 — air, Paddy's Land. 2nd Ode, p. 67 — air, Gramachree. 



68 EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 



CENTENNIAL BANQUET. 



The exercises at the Temple being concluded, the procession was re- 
formed, and the Society returned to 

CONCERT HALL, 

Where two hundred and fifty gentlemen — -members, guests, and friends — 
sat down to a sumptuous dinner. After the cloth was removed, the regular 
Toasts were announced by the Toast Master, Mr. D. W. O'Brien. 

REGULAR TOASTS. 
1st. The Day. — Being the Centennial Anniversary of the Irish Chari- 
table Society — (how honorable to us to reflect) when Irishmen founded this 
Society, America was a colony of subjects, now a powerful nation of 
freemen. Irishmen nobly assisted in this glorious transmutation — may 
they ever uphold its Constitution and Laws. — Music, St. Patrick's Day. 

2nd. Ireland. — The land of our fathers ; the morning star of freedom 
already dawns on her long night of oppression, still the dark clouds of 
tithes and absenteeism hang over her — may they soon be dispelled by the 
bright sun of Liberty and Union. Music, Shamrock. 

3rd. United States. — The land of our adoption — we forget we are 
Strangers when it is forgotten that we are Aliens. Music, Hail Columbia. 

4th. The President of the United States. — Let us join in his 
prayer uttered on the fourth day of this month — " May it be among the 
dispensations of Providence to bless our beloved country with length of 
days; may her ways be ways of pleasantness, and all her paths peace." 
Music, President's March. 

5th. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and her Excellent 
Governor. — Long may they remain wedded together, living evidence that 
her institutions open to talent a free field ; and that here, honest ambition 
knows no bound, except that of equal laws. Music, Yankee Doodle. 

His Excellency Edward Everett rose and addressed the company: — 
Mr. President, — I rise agreeably to usage, to make my acknowledgments 
to yourself and the company for their kind notice. I deem it a high 



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honor to have been invited to be present on this occasion, and I regard it 
a very auspicious circumstance for Massachusetts that a festival like this 
can be celebrated in her capital with such demonstrations of cordial feeling 
and good will on the part of such a company as I see around me. I have 
been, in truth Sir, highly interested in the exercises of the day. I had a 
general knowledge of your Society from the reports of the proceedings of 
former anniversaries ; but I was ignorant that its existence dated so far 
back ; covering, in fact, nearly one-half of the entire period since the settle- 
ment of the country. I must own, too, Sir, that before hearing your most 
excellent, judicious and eloquent discourse, I had not sufficiently reflected 
on the importance of such an institution as this, in a national point of view. 
No public man, it is true, in America can have failed to perceive the vast 
importance of the subject of emigration, in various aspects. I have ever 
thought the condition, circumstances and wants of those who land on our 
shores from Europe deserving more consideration than has been yet paid 
to them. They not only afford scope for the most meritorious efforts of 
philanthropy, but they have important bearings on the welfare both of 
America and Europe. But I perceive from your discourse, Sir, that this 
and kindred institutions are actually necessary, if I may so express myself, 
to enable the new world to fulfil its destiny. By the destiny of the new 
world I mean the office assigned it by Providence, in promoting the 
advancement of civilization, the progress of freedom, and the moral 
improvement of our race. It is justly remarked by the learned historian 
of the Roman empire, that one of the circumstances which rendered the 
condition of its subjects more completely wretched than that of the victims 
of tyranny in any other age or country, was that they had no escape. The 
empire of the Romans, he observes, filled the world ; and when that empire 
fell into the hands of a single person, the world became a safe and dreary 
prison for his enemies. He contrasts this condition of things with that of 
the modern world, and regards the division of Europe into a number of 
independent states, connected, however, with each other by a general resem- 
blance of religion, language and manners, as productive of the most bene- 
ficial consequences to the liberty of mankind. A modern tyrant, who 
found no restraint in his own bosom, or from his own people, would soon 
find it from the example of his fellow-rulers, — the dread of censure, — the 
advice of his allies, — the fear of enemies. The objects of his displeasure 
might fly to other countries, and there find refuge, — new fortunes, perhaps 
the means of revenge. I shall not certainly question the truth of these 
judicious reflections ; but a very moderate acquaintance with the modern 
history of Europe will teach us that something more is required, in order 
to the full protection of the victims of oppressive government. The inter- 



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national system of a considerable part of Europe tends to a sort of confed- 
eracy of monarchies. You cannot travel from one country to another 
without a passport. This may be given or refused at pleasure ; and the 
minister or consul of every power resident at any intermediate court near 
which the fugitive has to pass, may refuse to countersign the passport. In 
this way a man may be hunted from Archangel to Lisbon. 

But besides this, in Europe what is to be gained by change of place, to 
any class except those who possess a great amount of easily transferable 
wealth ? The old world is full of inhabitants — or at least the land is all 
appropriated ; the professions, the trades are full ; and a hungry competi- 
tion keeps out intruders. There are political orders, religious establish- 
ments, deep-rooted prejudices, national feuds everywhere prevalent ; and a 
man jostled or forced out of the spot where he was originally planted, particu- 
larly if he goes abroad the friend of reform, is apt to find in neither place 
sympathy nor good will. This checks all ardent effort at improvement, 
against the interest or pleasure of the ruling powers. To afford then at 
once a full and fair scope for the noble principle of our natures which 
aspires to improve our condition, a refuge for those who fail in the some- 
times perilous attempt; a spot where good maybe projected without the 
painful necessity of pulling down the bad ; where blessings may be enjoyed 
without struggling with others for what they hold by prescription and 
claim as right, — it pleased heaven, at the moment of the great movement 
in Europe occasioned by the invention of the art of printing, to rend away 
the mighty veil of waters that concealed the western world. 

Hither, at all periods since its discovery, the longing hearts of the friends 
of liberty and the victims of oppression have been turned. The persecuted 
Puritan found refuge in New England, and the persecuted Catholic in 
Maryland, at the same moment. As perhaps there is no spot on earth 
which has suffered more from misgovernment than Ireland, none where 
there is more passionate attachment to liberty; so perhaps there is no 
country from which a larger emigration to America has taken place. And 
it is difficult to say whether the cause of humanity and improvement is the 
greatest gainer, on the part of those who emigrate or of their friends left 
behind, and still struggling in the good cause. An embittered and exas- 
perated state of public feeling, forever hovering on the verge of rebellion, 
however righteous the cause of warfare, is unfavorable to human improve- 
ment or happiness. But such a state exists, wherever all outlet and escape 
is cut off. I am persuaded that the cause of liberty is much more effectually 
served in Europe, by the reflection back from this country of the light of 
liberal institutions — by the spectacle of general prosperity shared by those 
who have turned their backs on the hardships and oppressions of older 



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countries, than it could possibly have been, had the iron wall of the Eu- 
ropean confederacy never have been broken down, and the friends of 
freedom been hemmed in, to struggle, to suffer and to sink, without the 
possibility of a refuge in case of disaster. You have also stated to-day, 
Sir, that the progress of reform in your native country was impeded by the 
explosion of 1798; and it is beyond question that, if it is to make sure 
and rapid advances, it must be in the paths of peace, and under the genial 
reaction of public sentiment from this country. 

But now, Sir, comes a practical difficulty. In the prodigious extent of 
emigration, which is constantly taking place, particularly under the circum- 
stances which occasion much of the emigration from Ireland, there is much 
present suffering, much want of guidance, much need of encouragement. 
The emigrant lands on our shores, a stranger — often a friendless, destitute 
stranger. You have sketched the picture, Sir; it needs no attempt at 
coloring from me. If he does not stoop to pick up the dollar at his feet, 
it is not always under the egregious delusion, of which you told us, that 
farther on there is a bag of gold. Sometimes it is because his heart is sick 
at the thought of those at home, who struggle in vain for a shilling to 
procure their daily bread. He has come to a land of promise, and of 
performance, too ; but the performance comes later, and promises will not 
always buoy up the wounded spirit. I know what it is, as well as you, my 
friends, to be a stranger in a distant land. I can catch a glimpse at the 
emigrant's feeling, though, as your worthy President told us, to be realized, 
in all their force, they must be felt. I can conceive that of all mortal men, 
he most needs protection, counsel and aid. He is a stranger on a remote 
shore ; he is no longer beneath the sacred shield of his native country, and 
not yet gathered beneath that of Tiis new country ; its opportunities and 
its blessings exist but in vision; its strangeness is heavy upon him. He 
cannot, at the first bound, lay hold of the promised advantages ; he cannot 
see them ; 

his eyes 



Are with his heart, and that is far away. 

He thinks not yet of acquiring blessings for himself, but, with tearful eyes, 
he implores an exile's blessing "on the land of his forefathers." The 
language of his bosom is, « 

Buried and cold, when my heart stills her motion, 
Green be thy fields, — sweetest isle of the ocean ! 
And thy harp-striking bards sing aloud with devotion, — 
Erin mavournin, — Erin go bragh ! 



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I do not pretend, Sir, to speak the native dialect of your country — the 
venerable relic of the great Celtic language; I fear my pronunciation 
wounds the ears of the company, but I perceive, from their response, that 
it has touched their hearts. 

Now, Sir, in this state of the emigrant's feelings, an institution like this 
steps in ; spreads out its wings over the stranger ; extends to him, possibly, 
some little pecuniary aid, if circumstances require and admit it ; cheers 
him with the voice of sympathy ; points out to his inexperience the safe 
path, and sends him on his way encouraged and rejoicing. It would be 
as unnecessary as it would be in me intrusive, to go more particularly into 
the subject of the agency of such institutions ; but I hope I have not 
wholly failed to explain my meaning, when I stated that I deemed them 
actually necessary to enable the new world to fulfil its destiny. I will no 
longer intrude upon the politeness of the company, except to offer, with 
your permission, the following sentiment : — 

Our Fellow-citizens of Irish Birth and Parentage. — May 
the advantages they enjoy in this country, soon be shared by their brethren 
beyond the sea; and the blessings of rational liberty be diffused through- 
out Ireland, from the Giant's Causeway to Cape Clear, and from the Hill 
of Howth to Connemara. 

6th. The City of Boston. — Its Trimount reminds us of our own 
native Shamrock. May its wealth, prosperity and happiness increase with 
its years. Music, Home, Sweet Home. 

His Honor, the Mayor, (Samuel Atkins Eliot,) rose, and introduced, 
with a few eloquent and appropriate remarks, the following sentiment :■*— 

The Irish Heart. — Quick and strong in its generous impulses, firm 
in its attachments, sound to the core. 

7th. The Founders of this Society. — Charity was their object, 
twenty-six were their members; were it possible for them to foresee that 
this country would on this day consist of twenty-six free and independent 
States, bound together by the bonds of Liberty, Equality and Freedom, 
how glorious to them wonld have been the vision. May many centuries 
elapse ere rfheir names are forgotten. Music, Exile of Erin. 

8th. Daniel O'Connell. — Athens boasted of a Solon, an Aristides, 
and a Demosthenes, but Ireland beholds all their great qualities combined 
in her favorite Son. Music, Sprig of Shillelah. 



CENTENNIAL BANQUET. 73 

9th. Justice to Ireland. — A domestic Legislature alone can confer 
it ; to expect it from a London Parliament is an idle dream, and. we Irish- 
men, on this side of the water, hope that full restitution will be made for 
past injustice. Music, Garryowen. 

10th. Republicanism. — Based on the rights of man. May its great 
moral power forever prevent the acts or influence of any p^rty, to infringe 
on, or fritter away the rights of freemen. Music, Marseilles Hymn. 

1 lth. The Akmt and Navy. — Their achievements in the last war with 
Great Britain astonished the despots of the world. May they ever uphold 
the honors they gained, and always be able to make their enemies fear 
them. Music, Star Spangled Banner. 

12th. The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association. — 
A concentration of mutual attainments, scientific and physical skill, unsur- 
passed anywhere. May their Fair prospects, brighten to an equal splendor. 

The Hon. Stephen Fairbanks, President of the Massachusetts Charitable 
Mechanic Association, rose and said : 

Mr. President, — After the rare intellectual repast with which we have 
been favored on the present occasion,, it is not my purpose to detain this 
assembly with any protracted remarks ; but, having the honor of a seat at 
this festive board, in consequence of the favorable position it ( is my good 
fortune to hold in the Society to which such flattering allusion has been 
made by the sentiment just propounded, it is due to this very respectable 
company to offer them my most grateful acknowledgments in behalf of the 
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, not only for the cordial 
manner in which that sentiment has been responded to, but for their kind- 
ness in tendering to the head of that institution an invitation to be present 
on this interesting occasion. 

The relation which you yourself, Mr. President, as well as some others 
whom I have now the honor to address, sustain to that institution, is some 
indication of the readiness of its members to avail themselves at all times 
of the friendly aid and co-operation of the intelligent and scientific, to 
whatever nation they may belong, and more especially of the natives of 
that country from which we have derived some of our earliest impressions 
of the importance of cultivating the arts. The liberal policy of that 
institution in regard to the admission of members, is worthy of all praise, 

and the great accession of members, from time to time, is the best proof of 

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the wisdom of this course, and I trust it will never subject itself to the 
imputation of rejecting any high-minded intelligent mechanic, who has 
complied with the conditions of the constitution, whether a native or 
adopted citizen. 

But, Sir, I will not speak here of one interest only ; we are the favored 
people of a widely extended and flourishing country, blessed with skill and 
industry, as well as a disposition to cultivate and foster every branch of 
internal trade, so as to render us, if need be, independent of every other 
nation ; and our watch-word should be, Agriculture, Manufactures and 
Commerce, n.ot in opposition to, but mutually supporting and extending 
each other. Let us, then, hail, with a cordial and friendly reception, the 
respectable emigrant of every country, the history of which has awarded 
to its citizens an undying love of liberty and equal laws. 

I beg leave to propose to the company, as a sentiment, — 

Irish Emigrants : While they are endowed by Heaven with the 
patriotic spirit of Orr, the Shearses, Emmet, McCam, Russell, Fitzgerald, 
and other heroes, who bled for afflicted Ireland, their adopted country will 
never look to them in vain, when its liberty and independence are assailed 
by foreign or internal foes. 

Mr. Fairbanks subsequently asked permission to give a volunteer toast. 
He said the Irish heart had been a fruitful theme on the present occasion ; 
he was glad of it, for he had long been deeply impressed with the benevolence 
and philanthropy of the Irish nation. But it had so happened, that, this 
evening, we had all run to the masculine gender — he would call the atten- 
tion of the meeting to the feminine gender. He would propose to the 
company — 

The Daughters of Ireland, entrenched within the fortress of 
paternal affection : May they never surrender the citadel of their hearts, 
except to those who wield the arms of sincere love, chastened by morality 
and temperance. 

13th. The Ladies. — With assiduity we court their smiles ; with sorrow 
we receive their frowns ; but smiling or frowning, we love them. Music, 
Haste to the Wedding. 

Rev. Mr. Pierpont being called upon for a sentiment, made a few remarks, 
and concluded by giving — 

Hibernia. — Steeped in her own tears, she never can get up; — soaking 
in whiskey, she must go down; — but bathing in coult wather she will get 
on swimmingly. 



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• 

After Mr. Pierpont concluded,,. his remarks and sentiment, John C. 
Tucker, one of the Committee of Arrangements, gave the following : — 

The Mayor and City Government. — The noble institutions of the 
city are flourishing under their auspices — may they give a plentiful supply 
of pure water, and not prevent us from mixing it with condiments of our 
own selection. 

( This Toast was received with unbounded applause.) 

The sentiment given by His Honor the Mayor, in the early part of the 
evening — " The Irish Heart" — served as a text for many of the volunteer 
sentiments that were afterwards given by other gentlemen. The Rev. Mr. 
Lothrop being called upon, said he would preface a toast, by relating an 
incident which happened to himself in early life. When a boy, he had set 
out on a journey of forty or fifty miles, to visit a kinsman, and was be- 
nighted in the wilderness (on the banks of the then new canal in the State 
of New York). After wandering a length of time in the dark, he knew 
not whither, he descried a light, on arriving at which he found it to proceed 
from the cabin of an Irish family. He was kindly received and refreshed, 
and informed that the house of his kinsman was four miles off, and that it 
would be impossible to find his way alone, and, as he was desirous to pro- 
ceed, his hospitable entertainer took down his lanthorn, lighted a candle in 
it, and proceeded on foot with the lad, through the wilderness, till he put 
him on a direct road to his place of destination. Mr. Lothrop thought he 
could not now pay a better tribute to the feelings so generally found in the 
" Irish Heart," than by proposing the health of Patrick Murphy, his host 
and guide on the occasion just related. After such a relation, and done in 
such a happy style, Patrick Murphy's health was received, by three hun- 
dred of his countrymen, with " unbounded applause.'' The cheering 
having subsided, the Rev. Mr. Pierpont arose, and begged leave to offer a 
quotation from Shakspeare, supplementary to the beautiful incident so well 
told by his brother, and so heartily responded to by the company — lines 
equally applicable to the light in Mr. Murphy's lanthorn, and to the act of 
Mr. Murphy himself: 

" How far that little candle throws his beams ! 
So shines a good deed in a naughty world." 

When Patrick Murphy escorted the strange boy through the wilderness, he 
did not expect either his candle or his deed to shine with such brilliancy, at 
the distance of three hundred miles, and after the lapse of nearly twenty 
years. 



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VOLUNTEER TOASTS.' 

By Mr. Boyd, President of the Society. Agrarianism. — That kind of 
it so popular in Massachusetts — not that which with the club of the dema- 
gogue, would level all distinctions by bringing down every thing that is 
exalted ; but that which, by the wand of the schoolmaster, levels by 
elevating that which is lowly. 

By Daniel O'Callahan, Vice-President. TheYotjng Catholic's Friend 
Society. — A flourishing scion from our ancient stock, their meeting with us 
on this happy occasion at the festive board, assures us that through them 
our Society will be preserved unimpaired amidst the storms of another 
century, and its fame still increase by deeds of active benevolence. 

This sentiment was eloquently responded to by Mr. Owen O'Brien, 
President of the Y. C. F. S., who proposed the following : — 

The Charitable Irish Society and the Young C. F. Society. — 
May they always be united by that love and good feeling which should 
always exist between the parent and the child, and may the actions and con- 
duct of the latter, be that which will always ensure for it the protection and 
approbation of a society, which is an honor to the Irishmen of New 
England, and whose advanced age bespeaks the union of feeling which 
has always existed amongst its members. 

By Daniel Parkman, Esq. The Memory of John Cheverus. — 

Faithful as a priest, beloved as a bishop, honored and extended as cardinal ; 
though, to use his own words, he was an adopted child of this country, his 
heart, his soul, was with us. Though my fold may, said the bishop, be 
more exalted, my cathedral more splendid abroad, yet can I never forget 
my own lambs, my dear chapel in my beloved Boston, the home of my heart. 

Francis McKenna rose, and gave the following sentiment : — 

Eobert Rantoul, Jr. — The independent course that he has pursued in 

our State Legislature, has won for him the admiration of his friends and 

the respect of his political opponents. 

Mr. Rantoul rose and made a few pertinent remarks, alluding to Ireland 
and her wrongs, and concluded by giving the following sentiment : 

The Memory of Richard Montgomery — a martyr to the cause of 
American liberty : May his blood constitute an enduring cement of friend- 
ship between the land of his birth and the land of his adoption. 



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By Maj. Samuel A. Allen. Horticultural Experiments. — May we 
live to see the day, when the science of gardening shall be so refined, as to 
place the goading thorns of Roses and Thistles at a respectful distance from 
the unpretending beauties of the Shamrock. 

By Thomas Power. The Harp op Ireland. — He is no true son of 
Erin, whose heart does not respond to the inspiration of its numbers. 

By Dr. H. B. C. Greene. The Memory op Emmet, and the 

ILLUSTRIOUS GALAXY OF HEROES, WHO, UNDER DIFFERENT REIGNS OP 
DESPOTISM, HAVE PERISHED IN THE CAUSE OF IRISH EMANCIPATION. — 

In the heart of every lover of the rights of man, they are embalmed as the 
martyrs of patriotism. When we design to bestow the dearest ins.ignum 
of distinction, to the most brilliant and incorruptible of the champions of 
independence, we will entwine the laurel with the shamrock, fresh plucked 
from their graves, and place it on the brow of Daniel O'Connell. 

By Col. Smith. Ireland and America. — May the former soon be as 
free as the latter, and may the latter never forget that Irishmen were 
instrumental in securing the liberty they now enjoy. 

By Bichard S. Fay, Esq. Ireland. — She has ever welcomed and 
hospitably entertained those who have sought a refuge on her shores, and 
she has a right to demand equal sympathy and kindness for those of her 
sons, who seek for a refuge from want and oppression in ours. 

By Ambrose Farrel, Chief Marshal. Perpetuity to the Charitable 
Irish Society. — May its members ever so conduct themselves as to be 
worthy of the esteem and respect of the constituted authorities .of the 
State and this noble city. 

By James King, one of the Committee of Arrangements. Andrew 
Jackson, Ex President of the United States. — The son of Irish 
parents ; in retiring from office, we may justly say in the words of the poet — 

"An honest man 's the noblest work of God." 

By Walter Madigan, one of the Committee of Arrangements. Irish- 
men. — A Lyndhurst has called them aliens, at home; but if injustice and 
oppression could alienate them from even the sacred ties of home, America 
should never doubt their allegiance to her laws of Equality and Justice. 



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By Daniel McGowan, Esq. Daniel O'Connell, the undaunted 
Patriot and gifted Statesman. — His exertions in the cause of 
oppressed Ireland, will ever render him dear to his countrymen. 

By Walter Welch, Esq. The Descendants op Irishmen. — May 

they never forget the respect which they owe to the land which contains 
the ashes of their fathers. 

After the Mayor retired, the President, Mr. Boyd, gave the following 
sentiment, which was received with hearty applause : — 

His Honor the Mayor. — His fellow-citizens know and appreciate his 
worth ; long may they enjoy the benefits of it. 

Judge Thatcher having been an invited guest, but being unable to attend 
the dinner, sent a very polite note to the Committee, the concluding sentence 
of which was used as a sentiment, and received with great approbation by 
the company, as follows : — 

May they (the members of the Society) find in their adopted country, a 
congenial soil, in which their virtues will take deep root, and their talents 
find an ample reward. 

By an absent Friend. The Heart or an Irishman. — A living monu- 
ment of kind and generous feelings — while the hand of Charity guides the 
stream, may the hand of Wealth yield a perpetual supply. 

Mr. C. G. Greene having been invited, but unable to attend the 
dinner, sent the following sentiment : — 

Irishmen. — The love of liberty will burn in their bosoms as long as 
their bright Isle is washed by the ocean. 

By Dr. Henchman. Irishmen. — The true friends and the brave. 

By Mr. Thomas Leighton. The Emerald Isle. — May her sons and 
daughters resemble a field of potatoes in full bloom, beautiful to look upon ; 
and when called on to assist the distressed, may they, like the roots, prove a 
real blessing to the poor. 

By E. H. Derby, Esq. Horticultural Experiments. — May the tree 
of freedom soon be planted in Ireland, and may John Bull find it as 
difficult to uproot it, as he found it here. 



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By James Keating. The Fair of Erin. — The fairest of the fair — 
may their fare he our fare, and our fare the best of fare. 

The Hon. Josiah Quincy, Jr., after remarking that Boston was evacuated 
by the British troops on the festival of St. Patrick, a Saint celebrated for 
exterminating the noxious animals of Ireland, gave as a sentiment : — 

Americans and Irishmen. — They may differ as to whether the patron 
Saint of the latter had any hand in driving out the enemies of the former — 
but in this they will agree — to stand together and fall together before a 
hostile foot shall again be placed on the land of their birth or the land 
of their adoption. 

Hon. John P. Bigelow, Secretary of State, in reply to a complimentary 
toast, briefly expressed his acknowledgments ; and alluding to a remark 
which had been made concerning a celebrated feat of the Irish Saint, and 
the present oppressed condition of the Emerald Isle, he offered the 
following sentiment : — 

Ireland. — St. Patrick destroyed its creeping things of other days — may 
his disciples speedily exterminate the political reptiles of the present age. 

His Excellency having retired, Francis McKenna, one of the Committee 
of Arrangements, gave the following sentiment : — 

The Governor of Massachusetts, the accomplished scholar 
and orator. — Independent of sect, party, or country ; he has given 
another proof this day, that he is the Governor of the people, " the whole 
people, and nothing but the people." 




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Boston, March 23th, 1837. 

Sir : — The Committee of Arrangements for the late Centennial 
Anniversary of the Charitable Irish Society, having listened with satis- 
faction and delight, to the excellent discourse delivered by you in the 
Masonic Temple on that occasion, and knowing well the feelings and 
wishes of the Society in regard to it, do, through the undersigned, respect- 
fully request you to prepare a copy of your oration for the press, either on 
their account, or in such a manner as you may deem most proper. 

Accept, Sir, the assurance of our continued esteem and regard, 
and oblige 

your obedient servants, 

AMBROSE FARRELL, 
WILLIAM P. M'KAY. 

JAMES BOYD, Esq. 








The above is a fac-simile of the copper-plate certificate of membership, 
executed by Thomas Wightman, Jr., uncle of ex-Mayor Wightman, in 
1813 [see page 35]. Reduced to just one-fourth the plate size by Mumler's 
photo-electrotype process. 



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1837, June 19$ At the regular quarterly meeting, at Concert Hall : 
Voted, That the Society accept of the Orations as printed, and pay the 

expenses of the same, and to sell for the benefit of the Society, and that 
the government tfe a Committee for that purpose. 

1838, January 19'£ At a meeting of the Government of the Charitable 
Irish Society, held at the house of Mr. ¥m. P. M'Kay, Treasurer, on 
Friday evening, — this meeting being convened pursuant to a requisition 
of the Treasurer, respecting a sum of Fifty Dollars recently given to him 
by Isaac Means, Esquire, as a donation to be given as charity to the poor 
this winter, and that the Officers of the Government act as a Committee 
to distribute the same. 

1838, March 8'Z J The circumstance of a distinguished Irishman, the 
Earl of Gosford, being now in this City, having been noticed by several 
of our members, the Government of the Charitable Irish Society, met 
at the House of Mr. William P. M'Kay, Treasurer. 

The meeting was called to order by the President, Mr. Boyd, after 
which he explained the object of the meeting. 

Voted, That a Delegation to consist of three, be appointed to wait on 
the Earl of Gosford, with a ticket of invitation to our anniversary dinner. 

1840, March 23? At an adjourned meeting held at Concert Hall : 
Win. P. M'Kay, President, in the chair : The Committee of Arrange- 
ments for the 17th of March, made the following report. 

From the location of Concert Hall and the well known wishes of the 
Society, your Committee had no hesitation in agreeing with Mr. Brigham, 
to supply a dinner and a bottle of wine to each person, for the sum of two 
dollars — that is, including and charging the same for the invited guests 
and the musicians, and reserving to the Committee the right to order in 
less wine than a bottle to each individual, and agreeing to allow them at 
the rate of four dollars per dozen for the quantity left. 

1841, March 17$ Total amount of Charity last year, $210.00. Number 
of persons relieved, 112. 

1841, April 15^ Society Meeting at the Stackpole House : 
The following Resolutions on the death of President William Henry 
Harrison, offered by Mr. Walter I. Walsh, were unanimously adopted and 
ordered to be printed in such papers as the government shall direct. 

Resolved, That the Charitable Irish Society mourn in common with 
their fellow-citizens, for the recent great national affliction, and that they 



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are deeply sensible of the high degree of honesty and integrity of the late 
William Henry Harrison. 

Resolved, That as Chief Magistrate of this nation, and dying while in 
the discharge of the high duties of that exalted station, his fame and 
memory become the trust of every good citizen, and one that he should 
cherish and reverence, as well from a feeling of justice to the man as a 
duty he owes to his country and the ministers of her laws. 

Resolved, That we shall promptly co-operate with the arrangements of 
our city authorities, for the funeral ceremonies on Tuesday next, and that 
each and every member be earnestly requested to join the Society on this 
occasion. 

1841, April 19* The following letter was received from the Corre- 
sponding Secretary of the Young Catholic's Friend Society. 

Boston, April 19, 1841. 

To the President of the Charitable Irish Society : — 

Sir — The Young Catholic's Friend Society, gratefully accept the 
invitation of your Society to join them in the obsequies of to-morrow, 
those of President Harrison. 

Though perhaps pride might dictate our appearance as an individual 
Society, yet reflection tells us that we could receive no higher honor than 
the esteem of those whom age and virtue render venerable, thus evinced in 
extending to us this invitation. In the name of the Society, then, Sir, I 
tender to you its warmest thanks, and remain, 

With much respect, your obt. servt., 

JAMES A. MAHONEY, Cor. Sec. Y. C. F. Soc. 

1841, April 20* The Society formed under the direction of the Chief 
Marshal, Mr. Francis McKenna, and marched to Beacon street to the 
place assigned them in the procession, from thence to Faneuil Hall, and 
after listening to the eloquent eulogy by the Hon. Rurus Choate, on the 
life and character of our lamented Chief Magistrate, Gen. William Henry 
Harrison, marched back to the Stackpole House, and adjourned. 

1845, March 17* Ninety gentlemen sat down to dinner at the Perkins 
House, at 4 o'clock. Mr. Terence McHugh, the President of the Society, 



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presided on the occasion. The following invited guests were present. 
Rev. Mr. O'Brien, Pastor of St. Nicholas' (Catholic) Church, Rev. Mr. 
Barnard of the Warren Street (Protestant) Chapel, 0. A. Brownson, Esq., 
R. C. Waterston, Esq., President of the British Charitable Society, A. J. 
Cameron, President of the Scots' Charitable Society, Hon. Josiah Quincy, 
Jr., and Thomas Gill, Esq. Interesting letters were received from the 
following gentlemen, regretting their inability to attend. Pit. Rev. J. B. 
Fitzpatrick, Rev. Mr. Hardy, Commodore Nicholson, John W. James, Esq., 
Hon. Gov. Briggs, Hon. Thomas A. Davis, Mayor of Boston, Hon. Sam'l 
A. Eliot. The company enjoyed themselves finely. The Secretary has 
nothing to say about the quality of the dinner. 

1845, July 10# The Society met at the Stackpole House at half-past 
twelve, P. M., to join in the funeral ceremonies in honor of Gen. Andrew 
Jackson. About seventy having joined the procession, the Society marched 
to the place assigned them on the Common, from whence, at half-past four, 
the host solemnly departed, and after marching through some of the principal 
streets, entered the Cradle of Liberty, where an eloquent eulogy was delivered 
by the Hon. Pliny Myrick, of Worcester. 

1847, March 8 th Special Meeting at the Stackpole House : 

Whereas, In view of the calamity by which Ireland, in the wisdom of an 

inscrutable Providence, is afflicted, we regard humiliation and not rejoicing, 

fasting rather than feasting, as best becoming Irishmen. 

Resolved, That while famine is stalking through the land of our birth, 
while destitution, despair and consequent death, increased and fearfully 
increasing, comes to our knowledge, by every succeeding packet, the jocund 
song, the sparkling wit, the impassioned sentiment and viands, though 
never before so rich, could only be to us at best, amidst such painful 
recollections "like apples on the Dead Sea shore, all ashes to the taste." 

Resolved, That the customary festival of this Society on the 17th of 
March, be dispensed Avith this year, and that in addition to what we have 
done individually for the relief of the suffering, we now in our associated 
capacity, contribute the expenses of such celebration to be applied to the 
same object. 

Resolved, That the officers of the Society are hereby authorized to act as 
a committee to receive such contributions, as members under the foregoing 
resolutions may please to make, and to appropriate the same to its legiti- 
mate object, at such a time and through such a channel, as they may 
deem expedient. 



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Resolved, That by this entrenchment on our usual custom, it is not 
intended in any degree to curtail our yearly subscriptions for local 
distribution. 

1848, October 25*,? The Society met at the Merchants Exchange, and 
from thence marched to the place assigned in Mount Vernon street, to 
take their station in a procession in honor of the most important event 
that ever occurred in Boston,— the introduction of pure water from Long 
Pond. Francis Tukey, Esq., acted as Chief-Marshal. 

1850, August 12$ Special Meeting. The President stated the object of 
the meeting to be, to take into consideration the expediency of joining in 
the funeral ceremonies, in honor of Gen. Zachaey Taylor, late President 
of the United States. Upon motion, Voted to attend the obsequies. 

1851, September 15*.? Quarterly Meeting, at Merchants Exchange 
Hotel : 

The President read a circular from Samuel A. Eliot, in behalf of Charity 
School, also an invitation from City Government to join in procession on 
the coming Railroad Jubilee. 

Mr. E. A. Palmer moved that we accept the invitation and join the 
procession, provided we get our proper position, and after a long discussion 
and various motions, Mr. John C. Tucker offered the following resolutions, 
which were adopted. 

Resolved, That the thanks of this Society are due to the City authorities 
for their courtesy in inviting us to participate with them in the Railroad 
Jubilee, on the 19th inst. 

Resolved, That under present circumstances, for causes and from feelings 
best known to ourselves, we deem it both expedient and proper, respectfully 
to decline the invitation. 

Resolved, That this Society would wish it distinctly understood, that 
they are not to be held responsible for any reasons given by any other 
Irish Society for declining to join in the Jubilee. 

1852, March 29'.? The Treasurer read a letter, enclosing five dollars as 
a donation to the funds of the Society, from His Honor Mayor Seaver, 
also the Treasurer's reply ordered to be placed on file. 



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1856, March 17'£ One Hundred and Nineteenth Anniversary 

FIRST MEETING AT THE PARKER HOUSE. 

John C. Crowley, Esq., President, in the chair. 



1857, June 15$ At a Quarterly Meeting held at the Parker House : 

The committee having in consideration the report of the Treasurer, 
submitted through Mr. J. D. McGill, their report. The report which bore 
evident marks of care and deliberation of the subject committed to them, 
after fully and ably reviewing the history of the Society; its pure 
and charitable character, and its antiquity of nobility and usefulness, 
recommended that no charity be disbursed from the Society, until its funds 
shall reach the sum of Jive thousand dollars ; as also other recommendations, 
the adoption of which would enhance the interest, and increase the useful- 
ness of the Society. The report was warmly received ; and after a general 
discussion by the members, it was 

Voted, That the report be accepted as a progressive report ; and that 
the committee be clothed with full power to consider all and every matter 
that can bear upon the subject, as also to revise the Constitution and report 
at the next meeting. 

1858, February 1* Special meeting held at the Parker House : 

Mr. Tucker, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, submitted 
a report upon the subject of disbursing two hundred dollars in charity — 
which was referred to said committee, — reporting the whole subject back 
to the Society. He stated that the committee took the whole subject into 
careful consideration : and for the purpose of raising funds for the assistance 
of the poor, had tendered an invitation to His Grace, Archbishop Hughes of 
New York, to lecture before the Society for that purpose. He concluded 
by submitting the answer of His Grace, which on motion, was 

Voted, That the letter of Archbishop Hughes be inserted on the records. 
The report of the committee was accepted. 
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New York, Jan'y 20th, 1858. 
Gentlemen : 

I have just received your favor of the 18th inst., 
inviting me to lecture for the benefit of the Charitable Irish Society 
of Boston, together with a copy of your constitution, by-laws, &c. 

I regret that neither my health, nor the multiplicity of my official 
duties, will permit me to accept the invitation with which I have been 
honored. 

Of the utility of your association there can be no doubt, and in 
other circumstances, it would have given me great pleasure to comply 
with your request ; and to contribute even in this manner towards the 
charitable object which you have so long sustained, and continue so 
zealously to prosecute. 

I Remain, Gentlemen, 

With great respect, Your Obedt. Servt., 

>J« JOHN, Abp. op New York. 
John C. Crowley, ~) 

John C. Tucker, Esqs., > Com. 
and others. ) 

1858, March 22 n .<? Adjourned Anniversary Meeting, — Parker House : 
Voted, That Aaron D. Williams, of Roxbury, (who has dined with the 
Society for over twenty years,) be admitted as an honorary member. 

1858, June 21 s .'. A letter from A. D. Williams, Esq., of Roxbury, 
thanking the Society for electing him an honorary member, was read. 
Voted that it be placed on file. 

1860, June 18'.? Mr. E. A. Coggins, in accordance to his previous notice 
proposed that Article 13 of the Constitution be suspended until the sum 
of Eive Thousand Dollars be accumulated in the Treasury, and after a 
very lively and animated discussion, partaken in by Messrs. D. W. 
O'Brien, Tucker, Coggins and Magrath, in favor, and Moore and Moylan, 
against the proposition, it was voted unanimously to suspend Article 13 
of the Constitution until five thousand dollars, be accumulated in the 
Treasury. 

1860, December 17$ Regular Quarterly Meeting, at the Parker House : 

The President, Hugh O'Brien, called the attention of the Society to the 

fact that this may be the last time the Society may hold its meetings in 



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the Union, as it now is, and that it would be well for this time-honored 
Society to express its deep feeling on this occasion. 

One of the oldest members, D. W. O'Brien, arose and said " Such an 
action as has been suggested I consider a just one, and I therefore move 
that a committee of five be appointed to draught and report a series of 
resolutions bearing upon that point, and which will fully express our views 
upon the subject " and our sentiments in regard to the matter. The 
motion prevailed and the Chair appointed Messrs. John C. Crowley, 
D. W. O'Brien, Arthur McAvoy and Cornelius Doherty. The President 
was added to the committee. During the absence of the President, Mr. 
Thomas Coyle, Treasurer, filled the chair. 

Mr. J. C. Crowley, in behalf of the committee, read the following 
resolutions : — 

"Whereas, The chronicles of the day show the lamentable fact that these 
beloved United States are passing through a crisis that portends ruin to 
the integrity of this fair Republic and its institutions, and, 

Whereas, Our venerable Society preceded the foundation of the Con- 
federacy and of the Constitution, guarded its infancy, and is identified 
with the existence and prosperity of the Union, and most sensitively feels 
the shock to the national body politic, — therefore, 

Resolved, That the Charitable Irish Society of Boston condemns and 
abhors every principle or movement that would dissever these United 
States, — and we now solemnly renew our vows of fealty and love for the 
Union and the Constitution, and emulating the example and glorious 
achievements of our predecessors of '76 and '89, we pledge our efforts and 
our influence for the vindication and maintenance, " pure and undefiled," 
of this most perfect form of civil and religious liberty. 

Resolved, That we invoke our brethren and fellow-citizens throughout 
the Union, by the memories of our past united career, to lay aside all 
sectional or partisan animosities, and devote themselves to the cause 
of our endangered common country. 

Pending the resolutions, Messrs. D. W. O'Brien, Moore, W. H. O'Brien, 
P. Harkins, and Arthur McAvoy, expressed their views on the Union and 
Constitution, eloquently and patriotically, after which the resolutions were 
unanimously adopted. 

1861, June 17'.? On motion it was voted, that the Secretary be instruc- 
ted to obtain the names of the members of this Association, now going, or 
already gone to the war, and to enter their names on the Records. 



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1862, March ll 1 ]} One hundred and twenty-fifth Anniversary meeting: 

From the Report of the Secretary Michael J. Ward : 

A good many of our members have gone to the war to fight for the 
restoration of the glorious Constitution and Union of the States. Several 
of them, we can mention with pride, have already attained a position in 
the army of the Union, which has redounded to the honor of their nation- 
ality. Thomas Cass and Patrick R. Guiney, may be named in this record. 
The former Colonel and the latter Lieutenant-Colonel of the 9th Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers, which Regiment, we are proud to say, composed 
entirely of Irish and Irish extraction, is to-day one of the best and bravest 
on the soil of deluded Virginia. 

1862, June 16^ The meeting was called to order by the Vice-President. 

Martin Griffin, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, reported 
the following series, which was unanimously accepted. 

Whereas, For the first time in its history, and after an existence of a 
century and a quarter, the Charitable Irish Society is called upon to mourn 
the death of a President ; and while sorrowing for the loss of an officer, 
a brother and a friend, we reverently bow to the will of Him who has dealt 
so mercifully with us, and with grateful hearts to pray that as He has been 
with our fathers in the past, so may He continue to bless us in the future. 

Resolved, That in the death of Cornelius Doherty, our late President, 
the Society has lost a generous and devoted friend, one whose heart was 
ever ready to respond to that charity which is its corner-stone and 
foundation, — an earnest co-laborer in its cause, and an ardent advocate 
and jealous defender of its principles, — and its members have lost a 
genial and open-hearted friend. 

Resolved, That we tender to the bereaved family our warmest sympathy, 
and while we know that there is no loss like a father's loss, yet we cheer- 
fully bow to the will of that Father who has promised to be a father to the 
fatherless, and to dry the widow's tears. 

Resolved, That while Ave mourn the death of a friend, we mourn not as 
those without hope, for the memory of good deeds is the fragrance of 
heaven. The good which he has done survives him, and its grateful 
prayers will plead at the throne of mercy, and its tears mayhap blot out 
the record of human frailty. He has crossed the dark river, — time has 
blossomed into eternity, and he 

" Sleeps in the bosom of his Father and his God." 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by the Secre- 
tary to the family of the deceased. 



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1863, March 17?? Anniversary meeting. 

The meeting was called to order by the President, Mr. James H. Tallon, 
and the customary business having been gone through with, the Society 
adjourned until the evening, when some seventy-five gentlemen sat down 
to the Anniversary Dinner. 

1864, March 28'.^ Adjourned meeting. 

Patrick Harkins, Esq., the President, in the chair. Martin Lynch, 
presented resolutions on the death of our late Honorary Member, Aaron 
Davis Williams, which were on motion of John C. Crowley, unanimously 
adopted. 

1864, December 19^ Quarterly meeting : 

The President, Patrick Harkins, Esq., called the meeting to order and 
announced a vacancy in the office of Secretary, owing to the death of 
Edwin A. Palmer, Esq. 

On motion, voted that Edward Ryan be appointed Secretary, pro tern. 

The President alluded in feeling terms to the services of the late Secre- 
tary, and suggested that a committee be appointed to draft resolutions. 

On motion, Messrs. John C. Crowley, Hugh O'Brien, and Dennis W. 
O'Brien were appointed the Committee, and reported the following 
Resolutions. 

Whereas, It has pleased an Omnipotent Lord and Father to close the 
well-rounded career of our late valued Secretary, Edwin A. Palmer, and 
take to Himself. — Bowing to the decree of Supreme Wisdom, we offer our 
condoling tribute to the memory of one especially deserving the remem- 
brance of our Society and our individual respect ; therefore, 

Resolved, That our departed associate and friend, by his many years' 
zealous discharge of the arduous duties of Secretary to our Society, proved 
his earnest affection for its history and well-being, and the fervent esteem 
between him and our predecessors, as well as ourselves ; while his latest 
introduction (his son and namesake,) to our fellowship constituted a 
memorial intei'est between his eternal abode and us. 

Resolved, That in the character and conduct of our deceased Secretary 
we recognized traits most becoming a man, — exemplary probity, constancy, 
amiability, practical intelligence and efficiency — particularly in works of 
charity, which were ever most congenial to him ; and in his career and 
ending we revere the duteous fulfilment of a Christian's mission. May he 
rest in peace. 

Resolved, That these resolutions be entered on the records, and a copy 
transmitted to the widow and bereaved family. 



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1865, September. Regular quarterly meeting: — Michael Doherty, 
President, in the chair. 

The committee to consider and report upon a plan to make the Society 
more practical in its character, made a report in favor of establishing a 
reading-room, etc. 

1866, March. 17$ One hundred and twenty-ninth Anniversary meeting : 

Mr. John C. Crowley, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions on the 
death of our late beloved Bishop of Boston, reported as follows, and on 
motion of Mr. Harkins, were accepted by the members rising : 

Whereas, It has pleased our Sovereign Lord to take unto himself 
the late venerated and beloved Bishop, Rt. Rev. John Bernard 
Fitzpatrick, D. D. 

Resolved, That this Divine visitation causes us to mourn the loss of 
a prelate and gentleman whose demise is a sad bereavement to our State, 
to this honored city of his birth, and particularly to every member of his 
flock, of which he was a most tender Pastor. 

Resolved, That, while we shall miss his majestic person, the incom- 
parable graces of his exalted intellect and character, and his inspiring 
example of faith and piety, we shall also ever cherish as our privilege and 
good fortune, the recollections of his episcopate, which was the worthy 
continuation of the ministries of Cheverus and Fenwick, — all exemplars 
who " beacon us to the abode where the eternal are." 

Resolved, That this venerable Society, feeling especial grief for the death 
of so distinguished a scion of its own stock — the son of a past President — 
will ever hold in fragrant remembrance the worth of the Father as well as 
the shining virtues and career of his eminent Son, and offers its deepest 
sympathies with their surviving relatives. 

1866, December 17'.? Quarterly meeting. . 

Mr. Patrick Donahoe, notified the Society of the proposed visit of the 
Hon. John Frances Maguire, M. P., from Cork, Ireland. 

The Government of the Society, was instructed to wait upon Mr. 
Maguire on his arrival, and tender him a dinner by the Society. 

1868, March 17 '* One hundred and thirty-first Anniversary. 

The annual meeting was held at noon, the President, Charles F. 
Donnelly, Esq., in the chair. The reports of the officers, show that the 
Society is in a flourishing condition. 



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1869, March 17$ One hundred and thirty-second Anniversary. 

The President, John M. Maguire, called the meeting to order, and the 
gratifying fact was announced by the Treasurer, that the funds of the 
Society now amount to Five Thousand Dollars. 

1870, During this year there was constantly agitated the investment 
of the funds in real estate, and at the December meeting, there was a com- 
mittee appointed, but as they never came together, nothing came of it. 

1871, March 17$ From the Secretary's Report. 

♦I would also call your attention to the want of a fund to temporarily 
assist distressed Irishmen arriving in this city. The Scotch, and British, 
and Welch, and other nationalities, have their homes where a poor, strange 
wayfarer can be accommodated with a night's lodging and a meal of victuals ; 
but the friendless Son of Erin, has none to shelter or give him food. This 
should be our special work, and a small sum of money, judiciously applied, 
would meet this pressing want. 

1871, December 18$ At the regular quarterly meeting: 

It was unanimously voted to provide for ladies at the next Anniversary 
dinner. 

1872, February 19$ Special meeting: 

The meeting was called to order by the President, who stated the meeting 
was called at the request of the Dinner Committee, for the purpose of 
giving the Society an opportunity of reconsidering the vote which passed 
at the last regular meeting in regard to making provision for ladies at the 
next Anniversary dinner. 

A motion to reconsider was put and carried by a majority of two votes. 

1872, March 18$ One hundred and thirty -fifth Anniversary meeting : 

TREASURER'S REPORT. 
The Treasurer respectfully submitted the following Report for the 
past year : 

Total Cash Receipts. . . : $1,297.45 

Total Cash Expenditures . , 1,226.21 

Cash on hand $ 7 1 .24 

Compared with last year, the funds of the Society have increased about 
$200, and when the interest is due in May next, will amount to the 
sum of $5,959.00 



92 EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 

The principal item of expense the past year has been as usual the 
Annual Celebration. The constitution provides that at the December 
meeting the Society shall determine how, and in what manner our Anni- 
versary shall be celebrated, and a committee at that meeting is appointed 
with full powers to carry out the wishes of the Society. Yet many of our 
members appear to be ignorant of the fact that this celebration is an 
expense to the Society. Last year our Anniversary was celebrated with 
more than the usual spirit, with the following result : — 

Dinner Bill $400.25 

Music 42.00 . 

Flowers for Table 75.00 

Advertising 20.00 

Decorations 6.00 

Printing 11.50 

Total Expense $554.75 

Received from 6 1 Tickets 305.00 

Balance $249.75 



Leaving a balance of $249.75 to be paid by the Society, or upwards of 
$4 per head over and above the amount received from the sale of tickets. 

A vote was passed at the June meeting appropriating $150 for the relief 
of emigrants landing at Boston. Of this money $30 was paid towards 
the fare of Mrs. Catherine Roach and children to Ireland, and the balance, 
$120, remains unexpended. 

While the Treasurer has no doubt the money was expended on a worthy 
object, still, he believes that emigrants who come here to make this country 
their permanent home, are more deserving of our charity. In fact, our 
constitution expressly states, that those who are or have been members 
have a prior and a stronger claim on us in the distribution of the funds of 
the Society. 

In conclusion, the Treasurer would respectfully state that he has served 
the Society nine years as Treasurer, and has also filled other offices, almost 
continuously since he became a member. For this mark of your respect 
and confidence no language at his command would fully express his 
heartfelt thanks. But, gentlemen, he has no intention of becoming a 
fixture in this Society, nor does he wish to stand in the way of others who 
are equally deserving of your confidence ; and he again takes the oppor- 
tunity of respectfully declining a nomination for re-election as Treasurer 

of the Society. 

Respectfully submitted, 

[Signed.] HUGH O'BRIEN, Treasurer. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 93 

From the Keport of the Secretary, Bernard Corr : — 

I am proud to say that the records will show that renewed life has 
been instilled into our old Society during the year. More members have 
joined ; more money has been received ; more meetings have been held ; 
more interest has been manifested ; and several new ideas have been 
promulgated. 

Our aim should be to make this Society a rallying point for the Irish 
race in New England : to make it a creditable exponent of the intellectual, 
social and moral progress of our people ; and to make it what its founders 
intended it should be, — a substantial benefit to destitute emigrants. 

1872, October 1 n * Mr. John Divver, moved that the sum of $500 be 
donated to charitable purposes, and be distributed as follows : — 

Home for Destitute Children S100.00 

Little Sisters of the Poor 100.00 

House of Good Shepherd 100.00 

Particular Council Soc. St. Vincent de Paul. 100.00 

Charitable Irish Soc. Relief Committee 100.00 

$500.00 
The motion was carried unanimously. 

1873, October 24'* Special meeting. 

The President Thomas J. Gargan, read the call for the meeting to see 
what this Society would do in response to the touching appeal from the 
President of the Hibernian Relief Society of Memphis, received by Mr. 
Patrick Donahoe, on the 11th, "In God's name, send some relief to our 
suffering people.'' 

Motion made, seconded and passed, that the Treasurer be instructed to 
pay five hundred dollars to Mr. Donahoe, the Treasurer of the Parker 
House Committee on Memphis Relief. 

1874, March. Wh From the Report of the Secretary, Thomas A. Ring : 
A committee was appointed on Catholic Hall, — and in this connection 

it may not be out of the way to indulge in the hope that this matter will 
be taken hold of earnestly and pushed to a speedy realization. No greater 
work commends itself to-day to our Society. 

1875, March 17^ The Meeting was called to order by Bernard Corr, 
Esq., Vice President, Thomas J. „Gargan, President, being absent on 
account of ill health. 

The chairman of committee appointed to confer with other societies in 
regard to establishing an agency for the assistance of strangers of Irish 
nationality, presented the report of the committee. 



94 EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 

Mr. Donahoe introduced Mr. James Brogan, who came from Newark, 
N. J., to present this Society with a Scarf which was worn by his grand- 
father in 1775, as a member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. He 
stated to the Society that he was destitute of money, and had not eaten 
food for some time. 

On motion, the above matter was referred to the government. 

The government considered the matter of James Brogan, and voted to 
donate twenty-five dollars as an equivalent for the scarf he presented the 
Society, and to defray his expenses in reaching his home in Newark, N. J. 

One hundred and thirty-eighth Anniversary, at the Parker House : 
The spacious dining-hall was beautifully decorated with Irish and 
American flags, besides a handsome floral display on the tables. About 
seven o'clock, the company sat down, President Corr at the head of the 
table, and in his immediate vicinity were seated some of our most promi- 
nent statesmen and business men, including his Excellency, Governor 
Gaston, Congressman William W. Warren, Collector Simmons, and 
Aldei-men Power and O'Brien. After the good things furnished by Mr. 
Parker had been well discussed, the newly-elected President, Mr. Bernard 
Corr, called the company to order, and bid the assemblage welcome in a 
happy speech. 

On the conclusion of the President's remarks, he introduced to the 
company the Toast Master, Mr. J. Stuart MacCorry, who announced the 
following as the 

REGULAR TOASTS. 

" The Day we Celebrate." — Dear to every one having a drop of Irish 
blood in his veins; it should be honored by all lovers of political and 
religious liberty. Responded to by Judge Joseph D. Fallon. Music — 
Hail! Glorious Apostle. 

" The United States." — The nation of sovereignties, and the sovereign of 
nations — may its proud pre-eminence never be diminished by undue en- 
croachment of the States upon the prerogative of the Union, or of the 
Union upon the States. Responded to by Thomas Riley, Esq. Music — 
Hail Columbia. 

" Massachusetts." — Safe in the morality and intelligence of her citizens 
she wins our gratitude by her steady progress in shaking off old prejudice 
and her effort to see the right and do the right. Responded to by Hon. 
William W. Warren. Music — Believe me, if all those endearing young 
charms. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 95 

" Our Army and Navy." — They need no eulogy but the simple record 
of their deeds ; the enlightened patriotism which prompted them to preserve, 
will prevent them from proving dangerous to their country's liberty. In 
the absence of Gen. P. R. Guiney, who was expected to respond to this 
sentiment, the band played the National Airs. Music — Red, White and Blue. 

" The President of the United States."— Chief Magistrate of the whole 
country ; may his conquests in peace be no less than his great achievements 
in war. Responded to by William A. Simmons, Esq., Collector of the Port. 
Music — America. 

" Governor of Massachusetts." — Not an untried ruler, may his ability, 
integrity and fidelity to the true principles of popular government in the 
high station to which he has been called, be the guaranty of further and 
deserved advancements. Responded to by Governor William Gaston. 
Music — Hail to the Chief. 

" The City of Boston." — Our home and our pride — wherever the world 
over we may be, we can never be ashamed to proclaim this to be our home. 
A city of honesty and pluck; in times of financial doubt her credit is 
not doubted ; affliction is but a spur to her courage. Responded to by 
Alderman James Power. Music — Home, Sweet Home. 

" Civil and Religious Liberty." — The rallying cry of all lovers of human 
progress. The nation that does not secure these boons to even the humblest 
of her citizens can be free but in name. Responded to by Rev. D. J. 
O'Donovan. Music — Adeste Fidelis. 

" Our Sister Societies." — Generous rivals in the offices of good will 
and charity towards all men; may our associations continue as friendly 
in the future as our cooperation has been active in the past. Responded to 
by Dr. A. D. Sinclair, President Scots' Charitable Society. Music — 
Scotch Airs. 

" The Judiciary." — The high station should elevate its occupants to a 
just conception of their responsibilities, and the occupants should render 
the position illustrious by the solidity and breadth of their attainments and 
the purity of their motives. Judge Michael Norton was expected to 
respond, but being absent from the hall at the time, the band played Scenes 
that are brightest. 

" Our Past Officers." — Maintained and strengthened by their wisdom, 
we are sustained and encouraged by their presence. Responded to by 
Alderman Hugh O'Brien. Music — Auld Lang Syne. 



96 EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 

"Our Deceased Members." — They have fought the good fight; their 
lives are to us precious memories and stirring incentives to faithful deeds, 
may we emulate their virtues and endeavor to equal their exertions for 
the good influence of our Society. Responded to by Edward Ryan, Esq. 
Music — PleyeVs Hymn. 

" The Ladies." — The anxiety and solace of our lives ; how to make 
adequate return for the blessings they confer is a continual perplexity. — 

"Why then a final note prolong, 
Or lengthen out a closing song, 
Unless to hid the gentles speed 
Who long have listed to our rede ; 
To every lovely lady bright, 
What can we wish but faithful knight? 
To every faithful lover too, 
What can we wish but lady true? 
And knowledge to the studious sage, 
And pillow soft to head of age." 

Responded to by Mr. J. Stuart MacCorry. Music — 0' Dear, what can 
the matter be ? 

" The Press." — The eighth wonder of the world. Indefatigable in the 
dissemination of intelligence ; its errors in matters of fact must not be set 
down as a desire to pervert the truth, but to eagerness in the cause so 
great as to anticipate it. Responded to by Alderman Hugh O'Brien. 
Music — When Johnny Comes Marching Home. 

Several volunteer toasts were also responded to, Maj. M. J. McCafferty, 
of Worcester, responding to " The Heart of the Commonwealth." 

During the evening the company was entertained with excellent singing 
by Messrs. D. J. Maguinniss, J. T. Moriarty, T. A. Tallon, D. C. 
Hennessey and J. M. Galvin, likewise with good music by Higgins' Band. 

1875, June I s ?. Adjourned special meeting: 

The meeting was called to order by the President, who stated the object 
of the meeting, and after remarks by several of the members a division of 
the question was called for, which -was " that the Society take part in the 
Bunker Hill Centennial Celebration." After appropriate and patriotic 
remarks by several of the members, the following committee was appointed 
and instructed to make all necessary arrangements : 
Martin Lennon, Chairman, 
Bernard Corr, Edward Ryan, 

Thomas A. Tallon, John M. Maguire, 

John S. MacCorry, William Manning. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 97 

1875, June 17* The Society was notified to meet in Brookline street, 
northeast side of Franklin square, where carriages were in waiting for the 
members, and at the time appointed, the Society went to the place as- 
signed it in the Third Division, composed of Historical Societies and Civic 
Associations, in which it was assigned the right of the line. 

I 1875, June 28* The Chairman of the Bunker Hill Centennial Com- 
mittee made a report, which was accepted, and the committee discharged. 
On motion of John A. Daly, a committee of five was appointed, with 
full powers, to revise the Constitution and By-Laws and the Membership 
List f>f the Society, and Messrs. B. Corr, J. S. MacCorry, J. A. Daly, 
P. F. Griffin, and T. J. Gargan, constituted said committee. 

The following notice accompanied the regular notification of call of 
this meeting : — 

Boston, December 9th, 1875. 
To the President and Members of the Charitable Irish Society: 

Gentlemen : — At the meeting to be held on the 20th inst. 
the Committee on the Revision of the Constitution will submit a report 
recommending the adoption of several changes to the Constitution, etc., 
and the publication of a book, containing the Constitution and By-Laws 
of the Charitable Irish Society, instituted 1737, with a list of members and 
officers, and many interesting extracts from the original records of the 
Society, together with the Act of Incorporation, James Bo)*d's Centennial 
Anniversary Address, March 17, 1837, etc. 

This notice is issued with a view that all members should be better 
informed of the plan of the Committee,- and be enabled to give intelligent 
consideration to the subject. It is hoped that there will be a large attend- 
ance of the members at the coming meeting, that the matter may be fully 
discussed and satisfactorily settled, as it is the desire of the Committee to 
have the book ready for distribution on the 17 th of March next. 

All of which is courteously submitted in behalf of the Committee. 

J. Stuart Mac Court, Secretary. 

1875, December 20* Quarterly meeting : 

Mr. Daly, from the Committee on Revision of the Constitution, offered 
a report, which, on motion was accepted. 

1876, March 17* One hundred and thirty-ninth Anniversary meeting : 
The meeting was called to order by Bernard Corr, Esq., President, 

The Treasurer submitted his report, which was accepted. 
9 



98 EXTRACTS FROM THE RECORDS. 

From Secretary's Report : — 

Gentlemen : I find that I must repeat the usual suggestions, and again 
call your attention and urge upon you the necessity of this Society taking 
action in the building of a Public Hall, the want of which is becoming 
more apparent every day. 

The President introduced Mr. Patrick Denvir, who joined the Society 
fifty years ago to-day, viz. : March 17th, 1826, and on motion it was voted 
that he be the guest of the Society at the dinner this evening, to which 
he assented. 

The report of the committee on the revision of the Constitution was 
taken from the table, and Articles IV and VIII were accepted ; the further 
consideration was postponed until after the election of officers for the 
ensuing year. 

On motion, voted that the President appoint a committee of three 
persons, to receive, sort and count ballots, and Messrs. Riley, Conlon and 
J. M. Maguire were appointed said committee, and upon their report the 
following named gentlemen were declared elected : 

OFFICERS, 1876. 

President. — Patrick A. Collins. 

Vice-President. — Joseph D. Fallon. 

Treasurer. — Martin Lennon. 

Secretary. — J. Stuart MacCorrt. 

Keeper of the Silver Key, and 1 p ATRICK CoLLINS . 
Chairman of Board of Directors. ) 

f John W. McDonald, 

-n- . Patrick Maguire, 

Directors. -{ ' 

John Conlon, 
John Galvin. 

After the election of officers and the introduction of the President-elect 
by President Corr, President Collins accepted the Chair with a graceful 
speech. 

Gen. Guiney moved that the Constitution be taken from the table, and 
after some little correction, the Preamble of the same was adopted. 

Mr. Griffin moved that each article be taken up separately and acted upon. 
Each article, with the exception of Articles IV and VIII, which had been 
previously adopted, were unanimously adopted. 

At the conclusion of the business meeting, the Society adjourned, to 
meet at the Anniversary Dinner, at seven o'clock, in the evening. 




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OF TEE 



CHARITABLE IRISH SOCIETY. 



1737-1876. 




mmm% pMcr*. 



Members' Names 

Edward Gillespie, Esq 

William Sampson, Esq 

Kobert Hoage, Esq 

John Beane 

Dr. William Ingalls 

Russell Jarvis, Esq 

Hon. David Henshaw 

Daniel D. Brodhead 

Charles Hood 

John Roberts 

B. H. Norton 

Hon. Edward Kavanagh 

Thomas L. Tiernan, Esq 

Aaron D. Williams, Esq 



When Admitted. 



November 26, 1814. 
« « 

September 20, 1819. 
March 17, 1821. 
March 17, 1826. 



December 20, 1830. 
March 18, 1833. 

" 23, 1835. 

" 22, 1858. 



imm of Mtmhm. 



Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Allen, Edward 


March 


17, 1737 




Alderchurch, Edward 


it 


(< « 




Austin, Joseph 


April 


8, 1739 




Auchmuty, Esq. Robert 


«( 


" 1740 


President. 


Allen, David 


Oct. 


14, " 




Arthur, George 


April 


14, 1747 




Auchmuty, Jr. Robert 


April 


12, 1748 




Anderson, Thomas 


April 


13, 1756 




Ash, Capt. Thomas 


Aug. 


10, 1773 




Anderson, John 


March 


17, 1802 




Anderson, Francis 


K 


tt (t 




Allen, John 


Dec. 


19, 1825 




Arnett, Patrick 


March 


17, 1826 




Armour, Thomas F. A. 


Sept. 


18, 1837 


_ 


Boyd, Adam 


March 


17, 1737 




Bennett, Thomas 


it 


u it 




Bourns, Michael 


July 


11, 1738 




Black, Samuel 


Oct. 


10, " 




Boulton, George 


tt 


tt tt 




Breaden, Philip 


Jan. 


9, 1739 




Beath, John 


« 


9, « 




Butler, John 


July 


13, 1742 




*Ball, John 


Aug. 


8, 1749 


Secretary 17 years. 


Black, Andrew 


April 


13, 1756 


Secretary. 


Burk, William 


May 


18, 1757 




Bucey, George 


April 


10, 1760 





*" John Ball having served as Secretary seventeen years, desired to be excused, 
which was granted, and the thanks of the Society given him for his services, he 
being allowed nothing for it, save what he ought to have paid in common with the 
other members." — Records, April 8th, 1766. 

Simon Elliot was chosen but refused to serve, and Mr. Ball was again called to 
act and he did so. 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



103 





Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Burdick, Jr. Benjamin 


Aug. 


13, 1765 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Bryant, John 


June 


10, 1766 


Vice-President. 


Blake, John 


April 


11, 1769 




Brown, Dr. William 


« 


« a 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Bangs, Samuel 


Aug. 


8, " 




Butler, Nicholas 


Oct. 


10, " 




*Beane, John 


Feb. 


11, 1772 


Secretary. 


Beaty, William 


October, " 




Black, Moses 


Oct. 


26, 1784 


President. 


Boies, John 


April 


12, '« 


Vice-President. 


Burke, Andrew 


Jan. 


10, 1797 




Barrett, George 


March 


17, " 




Bull, John 


tt 


" 1802 




Burns, Michael 


tl 


tt (< 




Bell, Shubael 


Dec. 


17, " 


President. 


Byrne, John 


March 


18, 1811 




Brown, Patrick 


« 


(< tt 




Byrne, 2d. John 


Sept. 


16, " 




Byrne, Kevin 


<( 


t< a 




Bryant, John 


« 


tt tt 




Burns, Michael 


Dec. 


10, " 




Bruce, Thomas 


<( 


18, 1815 




Bogan, Walter 


Sept. 


21, 1818 




Bowes, James 


March 


18, 1822 




Byrne, Mark 


Dec. 


a 


Secretary. 


Byrne, Patrick 


March 


17, 1824 




Byrne, George 


<< 


" 1826 




Brown, David 


it 


tt it 




Barrett, John 


<{ 


tt tt 




Byrne, Martin 


Dec. 


18, " 




Brady, Patrick 


March 


17, 1827 




Bond, Edward 


a 


a a 




Byrne, Edward 


tt 


tt tt 




Byrne, John 


tt 


tt tt 




Boyd, James 


tt 


tt it 


President. 


Butler, James 


tt 


" 1829 





*John Beane joined the Society February 11, 1772, and was elected Secretary March 
17, 1796, which office he held until March 17, 1821. At that meeting it was 

" Voted, The thauks of the Society be given the former Secretary, John Beane, and 
that in future he be considered an Honorary Member." 

" Mr. Beane lived, and was among us till very lately ; in 1834 his name is mentioned 
on our books, thus showing him to have been connected with the Society sixty-two 
years, nearly two-thirds the whole period of its existence. He and the Society were 
mutually proud of the connection which the Ruler of all things permitted to be 
continued so long ; and as there are many who now hear me who enjoyed a personal 
intimacy with the good old man, it has been thought that the knowledge of the time 
of the commencement of his connection with the Institution would be acceptable." — 
Boyd's Centennial Address, March 17, 1837. 



104 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Burns, Michael 


March 17, 1831 




Bergen, James 


tt tt tt 




Bogue, Thomas 


tt tt tt 




Byrne, Rev. Patrick 


" 1832 


Treasurer. 


Bell, William 


Sept. 7, 1833 


Secretary. 


Boyle, Thomas 


Dec. 16, " 




Byrne, Dennis P. 


March 17, 1837 




Brazil!, John 


« u << 




Bowen, Patrick 


tt ■ tt t< 




Buckley, James 


tt tt tt 




Boyde, Thomas 


June 19, " 




Barry, Richard 


Oct. 8, 1838 




Barry, John H. 


«( « tt 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Boland, Tobias 


Dec. 17, " 




Blake, Peter E. 


March " 1842 




Barnett, Patrick 


tt it tt 




Baird, John 


tt tt it 




Bree, John 


" " 1843 




Barry, Richard 


Dec. 18, " 




Barrett, Nicholas 


March 26, 1844 




Byrne, James 


17, 1846 




Byrnes, Thomas 


tt tt 1847 




Barrett, Nicholas 


" " 1849 




Bahan, Thomas 


April 5, 1852 




Blood, William 


<« tt a 




Bonner, Dennis 


March 17, 1855 




Byrne, William 


" " 1857 




Branagan, Rev. F. X. 


it tt a 




Bradley, Henry 


June 21, 1858 




Bradley, Thomas D. 


<( « tt 




Byrne, James 


March 17, 1860 




Buckley, John H. 


24,1862 




Butler, Daniel A. 


June 20, 1864 




Bishop, Robert A. 


tt tt tt 




Barrett, James 


March 27, 1865 




Byrnes, Andrew 


17,1866 




Brine, George R. 


" " 1867 


Keeper Silver Key 


Burne, Patrick E. 


June " " 




Brine, William H. 


« tt tt 




Blake, John G. 


October 7, " 




Brady, Philip H. 


March 17, 1870 




Broderick, John 


Jan. 4, 1875 




Butler, Thomas 


March 17, " 




Bingham, William H. 


" 1876 




Clark, James 


March 17, 1737 




Clark, John 


tt (( ft 




Caldwell, Alexander 


April 11, 1738 





NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



105 



Members' Names. 



When Admitted. 



Highest Office holden. 



Cairworthy, Andrew 
Cumerford, Thomas 
Connell, Patrick 
Coppinger, John 
Calderwood, Samuel 
Carroll, Michael 
Cochran, Samuel 
Connor, Charles 
Campbell, James 
Clarehue, John 
Campbell, Alexander 
Colman, John 
Crawford, James 
Cuthberston, Samuel 
Cummings, James 
Condon, Samuel 
Carpenter, Richard 
Caldwell, Robert 
Conner, Patrick 
Callahan, Capt. John 
Calback, Esq. Philip 
Connor, Edmund 
Campbell, Andrew 
Cavenagh, James 
Cottrill, Matthew 
Creamer, Edward 
Cavenaugh, James 
Carson, Patrick 
Cunningham, Robert 
Clabley, Richard 
Connor, Michael 
Calhoon, Andrew 
Cusick, William 
Cassin, James 
Cottrill, Matthew 
Cain, Robert 
Casson, 



Oct. 9, 

April 14, 

12, 



May 18, 

April 10, 

" 14, 
July 



April 
Oct. 
April 
Oct. 



13, 

9, 
10, 

8, 
13, 

11, 

10, 
9, 



October, 

" 26, 
Jan. 10, 
March 17, 



1739 
1741 
1743 
1757 



1760 
1761 



1762 

1765 
« 

1766 

1767 

1768 

1769 

1770 
« 

1771 
1772 

1784 
1797 



1800 



1802 



June 


8, 


tt 


March 


17, 


1803 


Dec. 


<t 


1810 


March 


18, 


1811 


Dec. 


30, 


tt 



Cummings, Andrew 


tt 


n 


Connor, 


« 


ft 


Carroll, Edward 


tt 


tt 


Calligan, James 


It 


tt 


Cardiff, Philip 


Sept. 


20, 


Cahill, Patrick T. 


Dec. 


19, 


Cox, Edward L. 


« 


«< 


Claflen, 


tt 


15, 


Cook, James 


March 


17, 


Cavenaugh, John 


it 


tt 


Connoly, Michael 


tt 


tt 



1813 

1814 
tt 

1816 
1817 



Secretary. 



Keeper Silver Key. 



106 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Members' Names. 



When Admitted. 



Highest Office holden. 



Carney, Edward 
Carrigan, Michael 
Carney, Patrick 
Crampton, Henry R. 
Cummiskey, Hugh 
Carroll, William 
Carroll, Patrick 
Colligan, James 
Connor, John 
Carney, Andrew 
Coyle, Hugh 
Carroll, James 
Carroll, John F. 
Carver, Charles 
Crosby, William S. 
Connolly, Patrick 
Clinton, Edward 
Connors, Patrick 
Coyle, William 
Cain, James 
Charleton, Patrick 
Collins, Michael 
Conway, Edmund 
Clark, John 
Clark, Alexander 
Connoly, Rev. Peter 
Casey, James 
Curtin, Rev. John J. 
Cunningham, John T. 
Callahan, John 
Comerford, Patrick 
Clinton, James B. 
Comerford, Nicholas 
Christian, Richard 
Casey, Edward 
Crowley, Daniel 
Corry, Michael 
Callahan, William D. 
Campbell, Daniel W. 
Cullinan, John 
Cahill, James 
Caughlin, David 
Christie, Alexander 
Cummisky, Hugh 
Crowley, John C. 
Campbell, William 
Cass, Thomas 
Cleary, Michael 



Dec. 
March 



Dec. 
March 



June 
Dec. 
March 



15, 1817 

17, 1818 

26, " 

17, 1819 
" 1823 
" 1825 

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tt tt 

19, " 

17, 1826 



tt (i 

19, " 

18, " 

17, 1827 

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Dee. 20, 1830 



March 
Sept. 
Dec. 
March 



Sept. 
it 

March 



Sept. 

March 

Dec. 



Sept. 
March 



17, 1831 

19, " 
tt tt 

17, 1832 



7, 1833 
tt tt 

17, 1835 
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" 1836 
tt tt 

" 1837 

18, " 
17, 1838 



16, 1839 
20, 1841 

17, 1842 

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18, 1850 

17, 1851 
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" 1852 
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Secretary. 
Secretary. 

Treasurer. 



Secretary. 
President. 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



107 



Members' Names, 



When Admitted. 



Highest Office holden. 



Campbell, Tristram 
Cain, Daniel 
Coggins, E. A. 
Connelly, James 
Coyle, Thomas 
Cleary, Lawrence 
Collins, James 
Callaghan, Bernard 
Conlan, John 
Cashman, Jeremiah 
Connolly, John 
Crozier, James H. 
Collins, Patrick 
Coleman, Jr. Jeremiah 
Cook, Joseph T. 
Costello, James 
Cadogan, John D. 
Cryan, Patrick 
Cody, James 
Colford, Edward M. 
Carey, Hugh 
Caraher, A. P. 
Corcoran, John 
Collins, Michael D. 
Collins, James 
Corr, Bernard 
Callahan, Andrew P. 
Callahan, Andrew 
Conlon, John 
Collins, Patrick A. 
Connor, Christopher A. 
Cotter, James F. 
Carberry, Thomas 
Cashen, William 
Coyle, George J. 
Curtin, John 
Cox, Robert 

Duncan, Robert 
Drummond, William 
Downing, James 
Draper, George 
Douse, Samuel 
Dunning, William 
Dillon, Peter 
Dunworth, Henry 
Dougherty, Walter 
Dorus, Hugh 



March 

Sept. 

March 



June 

March 
«< 

June 

Sept. 
<< 

Dec. 
March 



29, 1852 

20, " 

17, 1853 
«( « 

" 1855 
" 1856 
" 1857 
" 1858 

22, " 

21 " 

27', 1859 

17, " 

20, " 

19, " 
« t( 

(t « 
17, 1860 



26, " 
Dec. 17, " 

March 18, 1861 
" 30, 1863 



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28, 


1864 


ft 


17, 


1865 


ft 


tt 


1866 


ft 


<t 


« 


(( 


<t 


« 


tt 


<t 


1867 


tt 


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Dec. 


19, 


<( 


March 


17, 


1871 


April 
March 


10, 
18, 


<« 
1872 


tt 


17, 


1873 


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u 


1875 


tt 


<( 


1876 


March 


17, 


1737 


<< 


a 


(« 


April 

ft 


11, 
ft 




Oct. 


10, 


1738 


Jan. 


9, 


1739 


April 


8, 
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Oct. 


9, 


« 


(< 


it 


«( 



Treasurer. 



Vice-President. 



Keeper Silver Key. 



President. 



President. 



108 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Members' Names. 



When Admitted. 



Highest Office holden. 



Dalton, James 
Davis, William 
Derby, Michael 
Duncan, George 
Dougherty, James 
Daily, Jeremiah 
Doyle, Peter 
Dalton, Capt. John 
Dunn, Capt. David 
Dunlap, Sen. Andrew 
Dunlap, Jr. Andrew 
Dunlap, James 
Daily, William 
Daniels, John 
Doran, Patrick 
Delancy, John 
Dowling, Richard 
Dowe, Isaac 
Driscoll, Cornelius 
Day, Richard 
Dezell, Robert 
Daily, Patrick 
Daily, John 
Dunn, Michael 
Demsey, Michael 
Dennahy, Michael 
Dalton, William 
Doyle, Martin 
Dockrell, Thomas 
Durant, William 
Dunlap, Esq. Andrew 
Dunlap, Francis 
Dunn, John 
Dunn, Thomas 
Doyle, David M. 
Doyle, Patrick 
Deveraux, Thomas 
Doyle, James 
Denvir, Patrick 
Drohan, Lawrence 
Davis, John 
Devlin, John 
Doyle, Lawrence 
Downey, Timothy 
Dwyer, William 
Dempsey, James 
Duggan, William 
Darcey, Daniel 



Jan. 
(c 

Oct. 

April 
it 

Aug. 

Feb. 

Oct 
« 

Jan. 

it 

March 
tt 

June 
Dec. 

a 

March 



Sept. 
March 



June 

a 

Dec. 

March 



Sept. 
March 



Dec. 



March 
Dec. 

March 



13, 


1740 


a 


tt 


13, 


i< 


14, 


1761 


13, 


1762 


13, 


1765 


10, 


1767 


13, 


<< 




1772 


10, 


1797 


a 


<( 


17, 


1799 


a 


1802 


8, 


n 


30, 


1811 


a 


tt 


18, 


1816 


a 


tt 


17, 


1817 


a 


it 


15, 


ti 


17, 


1818 


26, 


a 


tt 


tt 


15, 


ft 


ti 


ft 


21, 


tt 


17, 


1819 


(< 


<< 


tt 


<( 


20, 


1820 


17, 


1823 


a 


1824 


it 


a 


a 


1825 


ti 


c( 


tt 


ti 


tt 


1826 


tt 


tt 


tt 


1827 


it 


it 


tt 


tt 


it 


tt 


tt 


1828 


15, 


a 


17, 


tt 


n 


1829 


it 


a 



Vice-President. 



President. 
Vice-President. 



Keeper Silver Key. 



President. 



Vice-President. 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



109 



Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Durkin, Mark 


March 


17, 1830 




Duffey, Edward 


<< 


k <( 




Dillon, John 


Dec. 


20, " 




Donovan, Jeremiah 


March 


17, 1831 




Dooley, Patrick 


June 


20, " 




Dailey, William 


<< 


it a 




Dailey, John 


Sept. 


19, " 




Duffey, Hugh 


March 


17, 1832 




Doyle, Michael 


•< 


a it 




Devinny, John 


Sept. 


7, 1833 




Dwyer, Thomas 0. 


March 


17, 1834 




Dennahy, John 


(t 


" 1836 




Devlin, "Patrick 


t< 


" 1837 




Donahoe, Patrick 


« 


" 1841 


President. 


Del any, Michael 


n 


a tt 




Doherty, Rev. Manasseas P. 


tt 


" 1846 




Deveraux, William 


a 


ti a 




Daily, James 


(i 


26, 1849 




Devenny, William 


(( 


24, 1851 




Dooley, Henry 


Dec. 


15, " 




Doherty, Cornelius 


March 


17, 1852 


President. 


Devine, James 


u 


a a 




Dever, Daniel 


if 


a tt 




Duffey, Hugh 


a 


it a 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Dougherty, Patrick 


ti 


29, " 




Dolan, M. F. 


it 


(< a 




Doherty, John 


it 


17, 1854 




Doherty, John 


June 


18, 1855 




Doherty, Michael 


March 


17, 1856 


President. 


Devine, James 


a 


" 1857 




Driscoll, John 


a 


tt a 




Drury, Roger 


a 


" 1858 




Daly, Daniel 


it- 


" 1859 




Donovan, Patrick J. 


ft 


<( a 




Denvir, William 


a 


tt a 




Divver, John 


June 


20, " 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Doherty, James 


March 


17, 1860 




Dolan, Thomas 


« 


ti a 


President. 


Doran, William 


(( 


it a 




Donovan, John 


<( 


26, " 




Doherty, Daniel 


ti 


18, 1861 




Doherty, Henry 


tt 


<( (< 




Donnelly, Charles F. 


tt 


17, 1864 


President. 


Druinan, John 


a 


it n 




Donegan, John 


tt 


tt a 




Davis, James G. 


tt 


27, 1865 




Donahoe, Michael T. 


May 


2, 1866 




Dunphy, James W. 


March 


17, 1868 




10 









110 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Dowling, Mark 


Sept. 


19, 


1870 




Dooley, Thomas 


Dec. 


19, 


1870 




Daly, John A. 


March 


31, 


1873 




Driscoll, John F. 


« 


(< 


it 




Dolan, Charles T. 


Dec. 


20, 


1875 




Egart, Jnmes 


March 


17, 


1737 




Edgar, William 


Jan. 


9, 


1739 




Ervhine, Robert 


<( 




1743 




Elliot, Simon 


May 


18, 


1757 


President. 


Elcler, Robert 


Jan. 


14, 


1761 




Elliot, Simon 


tt 


tt 


tt 


Secretary. 


Ellison, Samnel 


Aug. 


tt 


tt 




Elliot, Jr. Gen. Simon 


April 


12, 


1791 


President. 


English, Thomas 


(« 


<< 


(c 


President. 


Eaton, William B. 


March 


17, 


1797 




English, William 


Dec. 


17, 


1810 




Ennis, Gregory 


March 


17, 


1818 




Eastman, Martin 


June 


15, 


1818 




Eviston, John 


Sept. 


20, 


1830 




Eagan, James 


March 


17, 


1848 


President. 


End, William 


Dec. 


15, 


1851 




Eagan, John 


March 


29, 


1852 




Freeland, William 


March 


17, 


1737 




Erench, William 


Jan. 


9, 


1739 




Ferguson, George 


« 


«< 


«( 




Eitzgibbon, Patrick 


April 


8, 


n 




Fergus, Owen (Donor,) 


Oct. 


9, 


tt 




Farrel, John 


April 


8, 


1740 




Fullington, John 


a 


14, 


1761 




French, Nicholas 


it 


12, 


1763 




Fitzgerald, Lewis 


il 


8, 


1766 




Freeman, Robert 


Aug. 


12, 


1766 




Freeland, James 


April 


10, 


1770 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Forrest, James 


Feb. 


11, 


1772 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Field, John 


<( 


tt 


<< 




Feran, Mark 


June 


9, 


tt 




Foley, John 


Dec. 


11, 


1792 




Fletcher, Capt. P. 


Jan. 


10, 


1797 




Farrel 1, Patrick 


March 


17, 


1802 




Fitzpatrick, Peter 


(i 


is 


« 




Faracy, Andrew 


Dec. 


17, 


1810 




Fitzpatrick, Bernard 


Sept. 


16, 


1811 


President. 


Flahaven, James 


(< 


u 


<( 




Fitzsimmons, Peter 


Dec. 


20, 


tt 




Finnegan, Peter 


March 


17, 


1812 


Treasurer. 


Fitzroy, James 


June 


20, 


1814 





NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Ill 



Membebs' Names. 



When Admitted. 



Highest Office holden. 



Flinn, David 
Fagan, Peter 
Furey, Matthew 
Furey, Edward 
Foley, Matthew 
Fitzsimmons, James 
Farrell, Patrick 
Flahaven, Robert 
Farrell, Patrick 
Fitzpatrick, Thomas 
Fitzpatrick, John 
Farrell, John 
Flynn, Thomas 
Farrell, James 
Farrell, Ambrose 
Farrell, John 
Flynn, Patrick 
Fitzpatrick, Bernard 
Flemming, John 
Flynn, Michael 
Farrall, Thomas 
Flood, Rev. Patrick 
Farren, James 
Fitzgibbon, Patrick 
Flemming, Patrick 
Foote, John 
Farron, Daniel 
Fay, Christopher 
Farren, George 
Faulkner, William J. 
Foley, Matthew 
Freeman, jr. Michael 
Fallon, John C. 
Ford, Jeremiah 
Fallon, Joseph D. 
Finnigan, John 
Farley, John 
Ferguson, Dennis 
Farley, James F. 
Finnerty, Daniel G. 

Gibbs, -Daniel 
Glen, George 
Gardner, James 
Geoghegan, Michael 
Griffin, John 
Gilmore, Joseph 
Gradon, John 



March 17, 1817 



ft 


" 1818 




Sept. 


21, " 




Dec. 


It tt 




<< 


tt ft 




t< 


it tt 




March 


17, 1824 




a 


" 1825 




u 


" 1827 




tt 


u it 




Dec. 


it tt 




u 


tt tt 




March 


17, 1831 


( Chief-Marshal at 


Sept. 


7, 1833 


1 the Society's Cen- 


March 


17, 1834 


( tennial Celebra'n. 


cc 


" 1835 


Treasurer. 


« 


" 1836 




June 


20, 1836 




March 


17, 1840 




Dec. 


15, 1845 




March 


17, 1846 




« 


" 1848 




tt 


" 1849 




Dec: 


17, 1849 




March 


17, 1851 




Sept. 


20, 1852 




March 


17, 1857 




Dec. 


19, 1859 




March 


17, 1860 


Secretary. 


<( 


a tt 




Dec. 


17, 1860 




March 


17, 1862 




Dec. 


15, 1862 




March 


17, 1865 


Vice-President. 


u 


" 1866 




June 


15, 1868 




<< 


<( tt 




March 


17, 1873 




Dec. 


20, 1875 




March 


17, 1737 




(< 


It ft 




April 


11, " 




<< 


(( tt 




Oct. 


10, 1738 




Jan. 


9, 1739 





112 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Members' Names. 


"W^en Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Glen, Robert (Donor.) 




1741 




Gormon, John 


June 


13, 1769 




Gerry, John 


Aug. 


8, 1769 




Gillespie, Archibald 


June 


12, 1770 




Gardner, Robert 


Feb. 


11, 1772 


Treasurer. 


Grant, Thomas 


April 


12, 1785 




Gardner, Robert 


Oct. 


18, 1791 




Getty, Robert 


Jan. 


8, 1793 




Gorman, Patrick 


March 


17, 1802 




Gillis, John 


it 


a a 




Grant, Lawrence 


Dec. 


30, 1811 




Griffin, Michael 


March 


17, 1819 




Griffin, Patrick 


a 


" 1824 




Gleeson, William 


a 


" 1825 


Vice-President. 


Gordon, Esq. William 


t< 


" 1826 




Grady, Daniel J. 


June 


19, 1826 




Gault, John 


March 


17, 1827 




Gibbs, James 


June 


18, 1827 




Gibson, Andrew 


it 


16, 1828 




Gallagher, Edward 


it 


a a 




Gorman, Hugh 


n 


a a 




Glascott, George W. 


Sept. 


15, " 




Garland, John 


March 


17, 1829 




Gallagher, William 


it 


a a 




Gleeson, Daniel 


a 


a a 




Graham, Daniel 


Dec. 


21, " 




Guildy, Patrick 


Sept. 


19, 1836 




Gavan, Thomas 


March 


17, 1837 




Greene, Hugh 


a 


a a 




Grattan, Esq. Thomas Colley 


Dec. 


16, 1839 




Grattan, Esq. Edm. Arnault 


a 


a a 




Greehy, Patrick 


March 


17, 1840 




Gleason, Thomas D. 


it 


" 1843 




Gallaher, Michael 


a 


" 1848 




Griffin, Martin 


a 


18, 1850 


Secretary. 


Gordon, Joseph 


a 


17, 1854 




Grace, Thomas 


a 


24, 1856 




Grady, John 


a 


22, 1858 




Gately, Matthew 


it 


17,1859 




Gorman, William 


tt 


a a 




Gorman, John 


a 


a a 




Godfrey, Francis 


a 


tt it 




Galvin, John 


a 


" 1860 




Grace, Edward 


a 


a a 




Guiney, Patrick R. 


a 


26, " 




Gleeson, James A. 


a 


18, 1861 




Gormley, Jr. P. 


a 


a a 




Gallagher, John 


June 


16, 1862 





NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



113 



Members' Names. 



When Admitted. 



Highest Office hold en. 



Greely, Patrick 
Gilbeirson, Charles M. 
Gargan, Thomas J. 
Griffin, Patrick F. 
Gately, Michael J. ■ 

Hall, William 
Hoog, John 
Hutchinson, John 
Holmes, Andrew 
Harper, John 
Hamilton, Frederick 
Hughes, James 
Holmes, William (Donor.) 
Hill, Robert 

Howard, Capt. Samuel . 
Hutchins, Matthew 
Hill, Charles 
Hunter, Henry- 
Hunt, Timothy 
Hamilton, William 
Heffernan, Edward 
Hal pin, Patrick 
Huddleston, Thomas 
Huddleston, Samuel 
Harper, William 
Hand, Peter 
Ilearn, William 

Haddock, 

Halliday, John 
Halliday, James 
Hagerty, Michael 
Herring, Michael 
Huddleston, Samuel 
Higgins, Michael 
Hanna, William 
Hammil, Patrick 
Hayes, John 
Hughes, William 
Hogan, William 
Hohey, Patrick 
Harvey, Constantine 
Higgins, Peter 
Havilin, James 
Hoi ley, Patrick 
Harvey, Thomas 
Hammond, Henry 
Hall, Oliver 



March 17, 1863 



Jan. 

April 
July 
April 
Oct. 



" 1867 

" 1868 

4, 1875 

11, 1737 
11, 1738 

8, 1739 

9, « 



April 8, 1740 



March 


9, 


1743 


Dec. 


12, 


1769 


April 


14, 


1772 


Oct. 


12 


1773 


Oct. 


26, 


1784 


March 


17, 


1806 


March 


24, 


1810 


Dec. 


17, 


1810 


Dec. 


30, 


1811 


March 


17, 


1820 



1826 



Dec. 


18, 


a 


a 


« 


a 


March 


17, 


1827 


a 


a 


u 


June 


10, 


1828 


Sept. 


15, 


1828 


March 


17, 


1829 


« 


15, 


1830 


u 


17, 


a 


It 


u 


a 


a 


a 


1831 


Sept. 


19, 


1836 


March 


17, 


1837 


« 


c . 


a 


u 


18, 


1839 


(( 


17, 


1841 


a 


17, 


1842 


a 


26, 


1844 


Dec. 


15, 


1845 



President. 

Keeper Silver Key. 

President. 



Treasurer. 



114 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Members' Names. 



When Admitted. 



Highest Office holdex. 



Hurley, John 
Harney, David 
Hennessy, William 
Herring, Roger 
Harvey, John B. 
Hyde, James 
Harkins, Patrick 
Harrigan, Jeremiah 
Hennessey, John 
Hastings, B. A. 
Hughes, John 
Hennessy, Kichard 
Healy, James 
Houghton, Michael 
Houghton, Edward 
Hooton, Richard 
Hatch, Nicholas 
Hughes, John 
Hughes, Thomas 
Hanlon, Owen H. 
Harvey, John 
Hill, George 
Healey, Bryan 
Harkins, Cornelius P. 
Haynes, Cornelius 
Hyland, William 
Heffernen, David 
Holland, John 
Howard, John 
Han ley, Patrick T. 
Harkins, Daniel G. 
Harkins, Edward 
Hayes, John J.. 
Hastings, Patrick J. 
Hennessey, David C. 
Howard, John 

Irvine, Thomas 

Johnson, William 
Johnson, Thomas 
Joice, John M. 
Jordan, Thomas 
Jamieson, Daniel 
Jamieson, Hugh 
Johnson, James 
Johnston, Edward 
Joice, James T. 



March 17, 

u a 

20, 
26, 
18. 



1846 

1848 
a 

1849 
1850 



17, 1851 



29, 



1852 



17, 1853 



(( 


a 


1854 


a 


n 


1855 


<i 


a 


1857 


Dec. 


21, 


1857 


March 


17, 


1859 


u 


a 


1860 


■ C( 


a 


a 


Dec. 


21, 


1863 


March 


17, 


1864 


a 


a 


1865 


a 


27, 


1865 


u 


17, 


1867 


April 


5, 


1869 


March 


17, 


1870 


a 


a 


1871 


a 


18, 


1872 


a 


17, 


1876 


"March 


17, 


1812 


Aug. 


13 


1765 


April 


12, 


1785 


Dec. 


30 


1811 


March 


17 


1823 


Dec. 


19 


1826 


March 


17 


1831 


« 


18 


1833 


a 


17 


1837 


IC 


29, 


1852 



Keeper Silver Key. 
President. 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



115 





Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Knox, Andrew 


March 17, 1737 




Kennedy, David 


April 11, " 




Knox, Adam 


a a it 




Knox, William 


Sept. 1756 




Knox, Andrew 


it >< 




Kelly, John 


July 12, 1759 




Kennedy, Robert 


Dec. 10, 1765 




Knox, Robert 


Dec. 12, 1769 




Kelly, Timothy 


<< a « 




Knox, Henry 


April 14, 1772 




Kennedy, John 


March 17, 1797' 




Keating-, William 


Dec. 30, 1811 




Knox, Henry J. 


Nov. 26, 1814 




Kehoe, Edward 


March 17, 1817 




Kelly, John 


" 1819 




Knapp, Samuel L. 


" " 1820 


President. 


Kitts, Edward 


" 1823 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Kirk, Edmund 


" 1824 




Kearny, Michael 


u a it 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Keating, George 


" " 1825 




Kennedy, Thomas 


« U it 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Kelly, Thomas 


" " 1826 




King, James 


" " 1827 




Keyes, Michael 


Dec. « " 




Kelly, William R. 


March 17, 1829 




Kitts, James 


' U tt 11 




King, Michael 


" 15, 1830 




Kearney, Bernard 


ec << u 




Kelly, James 


Jan. 17, " 




Keogh, William 


June 20, 1831 




Kavanagh, Isaac 


Sept. 19, 1831 




Keating, William 


March 18, 1833 




Kearney, Dr. Patrick 


Dec. 17, 1835 




Kenny, Thomas 


« << << 




Kelly, John 


21, " 


President. 


Keogh, Daniel 


March 17, 1837 




Kelly, Patrick 


18, 1839 




Kelly, Edward 


" 20, 1848 


Keeper Silver Key 


Kelly, William F. A. 


<f << (C 


Kemp, Henry 


18,1850 




Kelly, Ignatius A. 


17,1852 




Keany, John 


(< a tt 




Kelly, Michael 


" 29, " 




Kane, Malachi 


Dec. 17, 1855 




Kelly, Dennis 


March 17, 1856 




Kearney, Michael 


" 1857 


■ 


Kelly, Hugh 


" " 1858 




Keliher, T. J. 


Dec. 20, 1858 





116 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Kerins, Michael M. 


Dec. 


19, 1859 




Keefe, Martin 


March 


17, 1860 




Kennealy, John 


<< 


<( ft 




Keenan, Michael H. 


<< 


(l it 




Kelly, John 


<c 


" 1873 




Kelly, John J. 


«< 


" 1875 




Little, John 


March 


17, 1737 




Lewis, Joseph (Donor.) 


Oct. 


10, 1738 




Lawler, Thomas 


April 


10, 1739 




Lee, Stephen 


July 


14, 1761 




Ladley, John 


April 


13, 1762 




Logan, Patrick 


tt 


<« ft 




Leahy, Henry 


Dec. 


14, " 




Little, Alexander 


Aug. 


13, 1765 




Linn, James 


April 


9, 1771 




Leslie, Capt. Samuel 


October, 1772 




Leslie, Peter 


« 


tt 




Lee, Michael 


Oct. 


12, 1773 




Lee, Matthew 


March 


17, 1803 




Lemon, William 


(i 


" 1806 


Vice-President. 


Ledwith, Peter 


Dec. 


15, 1817 




Lane, Patrick 


March 


26, 1818 




Landers, William 


June 


15, « 




Lariscey, Rev. Philip 


March 


17, 1819 




Leary, John 


Sept. 


19, 1825 




Ledwith, Michael 


March 


17, 1826 




Lone, Patrick 


Dec. 


18, 1826 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Little, James 


March 


17, 1827 




Lynch, John 


Dec. 


15, 1828 




Laughlin, William 


March 


17, 1829 


* 


Lynch, John „ 


u 


u a 




Lane, John 


a 


15, 1830 




Larracy, John 


Dec. 


20, 1830 




Lafferty, Francis 


March 


17, 1832 




Lemmon, Charles 


tt 


<( « 




Lawler, Andrew 


Dec. 


19, 1836 




Lemmon, John 


March 


17, 1837 




Lynch, Rev. Thomas 


a 


tt ci 




La van, Patrick 


<( 


" 1842 




Lowry, William 


<( 


18, 1844 




Lawler, Andrew 


« 


17, 1846 




Lennon, Martin 


u 


29, 1852 


Treasurer. 


Lovett, Patrick 


tt 


17,1853 




Long, John 


ft 


" 1855 




Lyons, Jeremiah 


u 


" 1857 




Leary, Michael 


tt 


22, 1858 




Lemon, Jr. Henry 


March 


17, 1859 





NAMES OF MEMBEES. 



117 



Members' Names. 



When Admitted. 



Highest Office holden. 



Leary, Edward 
Lysight, Patrick J. 
Lynch, Martin 
Lappen, Owen 
Lynch, William 
Leighton, John W. 
Lodge, Patrick 
Leary, Timothy J. 
Logan, Patrick F. 
Lee, Daniel 
Lee, Patrick 
Lenehan, John 
Lappen, James A. 
Lynch, Thomas H. 



McFfall, Daniel 
Mayes, James 
Moore, Samuel 
Mortimer, Philip 
Motley, Patrick 
Molony, Thomas 
Moore, David 

Macmurphy, John (Donor.) 
McNeil, Adam 
McCrillis, James 
McDaniel, Thomas 
McFaden, James 
McGowing, Lodowic 
Malcolm, Michael 
McCleary, John 
Moony, John 
Moorhead, Rev. John 
McDaniel, Hugh 
Miller, David 
Miller, Samuel 
McHord, James 
McClennehan, Eev. William 
McNeil, Archibald 
Moore, William 
Mclntire, Neill 
Mackey, John 
Mortimer, James 
Miller, William 
McCarroll, Murtough 
Malcon, John 
McNeill, John 
Mclntyre Andrew 



Sept. 19, 1859 

Dec. 19, " 

March 17, 1860 

ft (t a 

" 26, " 

Dec. 17, " 

March 24, 1862 

Sept. 19, 1864 

Dec. 19, 1870 

March 17, 1871 

March 17, 1873 
Jan. 4, 1875 

Dec. 20, 1875 



March 17, 1737 



April 
>« 

July 



Oct. 
Jan. 



April 
« 

a 

Oct. 
April 

a 

Aug. 
March 



April 
April 
Aug. 
May 

a 

April 
July 



11, " 

<< << 

11, 1738 



<( 


« 


IC 


« 


ft 


<( 


it 


« 


10, 


i< 


9, 


1739 


« 


ft 


a 


« 


8, 


(C 


<( 


ft 


« 


ft 


9, 


a 


8, 


1740 


n 


<( 


11, 


1741 


9, 


1743 


«( 


u 


<( 


(« 


9, 


1745 


14, 


1747 


8, 


1749 


11, 


1756 


(< 


C( 


12, 


1757 


12, 


1759 



President. 



118 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Mayers, Alexander 


April 


10, 1760 




Morton, William 


a 


14, 1761 




Morton, Thomas 


a 


n «« 




Murray, Matthew 


June 


8, 1762 




Mackay, William 


April 


8, 1766 




Malcolm, Capt. Daniel 


Oct 


14, 1766 


Vice-President. 


Moorhead, Alexander 


Feb. 


9, 1768 




McLane, John 


a 


a tt 


Secretary. 


Maroney, William 


June 


14, " 




McClure, Capt. William 


Dec. 


13, « 




McCordey, Capt. Robert 


April 


11, 1769 




McNeill, Daniel 


Oct. 


10, 1769 




Magner, John 


June 


12, 1770 


Vice-President. 


Molloney, John 


Oct. 


9, 1770 




McPhilliney, Hugh 


Dec. 


11, 1770 




McNeill, William 


Feb. 


11, 1772 


Treasurer. 


Mansfield, John 


Aug. 


<t tt 




McNeil, Capt. John 


October, 




Mclntire, William 


Feb. 


9, 1773 




McNeil, Robert 


Oct. 


26, 1784 


Vice-President. 


Mackay, Jr. William 


April 


12, 1791 


Keeper Silver Key. 


M'Donogh, Esq. Thomas 


« 


a a 




Magee, Capt. James 


(< 


a a 




Montgomery, John 


u 


tt a 




Mackay, Capt. John 


a 


a it 




Murray, Rev. John 


Jan. 


10, 1797 




Menchin, Edward 


u 


a tt 




McMann, 


it 


a a 




McNeil, Archibald 


March 


17, 1797 




McGee, Capt. Bernard 


a 


" 1798 




McCormick, Patrick 


n 


" 1802 




McCreighty, Thomas 


it 


a a 




McNeil, William Henry 


tt 


a a 




Moriarty, John 


11 


a it 




Martin, John 


ft 


a a 




McGuire, Francis 


a 


a a 




McGuire, James 


a 


a a 




McGee, Capt. James 


Dec. 


17, 1810 


President. 


McNerney, Patrick 


March 


18, 1811 




Mooney, William 


Sept. 


16, " 




Martin, Dennis 


« 


a a 




Martin, Patrick 


tt 


it a 




Madden, Matthew 


tt 


a it 




McNamara, John 


Dec. 


30, 1811 


Vice-President. 


Minns, James 


K 


it a 




McFarling, Francis 


tt 


19, 1813 




Martin, Patrick 


March 


17, 1814 




Malone, Richard 


a 


it a 





NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



119 



Members' Names. 


Whe*n Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Morean, John 


Dec. 


19, 1814 




McCage, Clotworthy 


March 


17, 1815 




McDonald, Patrick 


« 


18, 1816 




McGuire, John 


. (t 


tt it 




Murphy, Thomas 


a 


17, 1817 


President. 


Matthews, James 


(( 


tt a 




Maher, Edward 


Sept. 


15, " 




McDonald, Thomas 


Dec. 


15, " 




Moloy, Patrick 


March 


17, 1818 




McKenna, Francis 


Dec. 


21, " 


President. 


Meron, Thomas 


March 


17^ 1819 




McCarty, Miles 


a 


it a 




Meally, John 


it 


a a 




McGuire, William 


t< 


tt a 




McAlier, John 


t( 


tt tt 




McLaughlin, Patrick 


it 


" 1820 


- 


McKnight, James 


<{ 


(< tt 




McCarty, Edward 


<( 


tt a 




McQuade, Rev. Paul ♦ 


June 


19, " 




Montague, Patrick R. 


« 


tt a 




Madigan, William 


March 


17, 1823 




Magner, Daniel 


it 


it a 




Moore, Esq. Abram 


k 


" 1824 


President. 


McKenna, 2d. Francis 


a 


a tt 




Mahoney, Patrick 


it 


a tt 




McGirr, John 


tt 


tt n 




Means, Isaac 


tt 


tt a 


Treasurer. 


Madigan, William 


tt 


tt a 




Murphy, Peter 


tt 


" 1825 




McStraffick, William 


cc 


ft a 




Murphy, Hugh 


et 


a it 




McGee, Charles 


tt 


a tt 




McGuire, Patrick 


Sept. 


19, " 




McClure, John 


tt 


(< <( 




McGowan, Daniel 


a 


a n 




Murray, Samuel 


Dec. 


tt tt 




Murphy, Michael 


March 


17, 1826 




Murphy, James 


it 


tt a 




Morrisey, Michael 


tt 


it it 




McKenna, James 


Dec. 


18, " 




McGuire, Patrick 


a 


a it 




Mahoney, Cornelius 


March 


17, 1827 




Magill, John 


(< 


<( a 




Myers, John 


<« 


tt tt 




Madigan, Walter 


June 


18, " 


Secretary. 


McGlue, John 


Dec. 


17, " 




McNulty, Thomas 


a 


tt it 




McKenna, Bernard 


a 


tt a 





120 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holdex. 


McElroy, William 


Dec. 


17, 1827 




McNulty, Thomas 


tt 


a tt 




McCaffrey, James 


March 


" 1828 




Mellen, Henry 


June 


16, " 




McGuire, Peter 


Sept. 


15, " 




Murphy, Hugh 


a 


a tt 




Moran, Thomas 


March 


17, 1829 




McGirr, Owen 


it 


<< a 




Murray, Robert 


a 


a a 




Marley, Patrick 


tt 


tt a 




McCafFerty, Patrick 


a 


a it 




McDermott, John 


tt 


it tt 




McArdle, Patrick 


ti 


ti tt 




Matthewsj Michael 


(t 


tt tt 




McLaughlin, Daniel 


ti 


ti a 




McGirr, Charles 


Dec. 


21, " 




Mason, Henry 


March 


15, 1830 




Mooney, Patrick 


<c 


a n 




McCroarkin, John 


tt 


17, " 




McElroy, Edward 


tt 


a a 




McNeill, Gen. John 


Sept. 


20, " 




McKenna, 3rd, Francis 


« 


(< n 




Murphy, Patrick 


tt 


a it 




McAvoy, Arthur 


t( 


tt tt 


Treasurer. 


McGowan, John 


Dec. 


ti it 




Mahoney, Rev. John 


March 


17, 1831 




McDonnell, Henry 


it 


a a 




Mahoney, Cornelius 


June 


20, " 




McGaw, John A. 


March 


17, 1832 




Montgomery, Edward 


Dec 


tt a 




Morrisey, John 


March 


18, 1833 




McKeague, Thomas 


a 


it a 




McCann, Thomas 


a 


a a 




McGuire, Edward 


tt 


a a 




M'Kay, William P. 


a 


a tt 


President. 


McGrath, James 


Sept. 


7, « 




Mackey, John 


Dec. 


16, " 


Secretary. 


McDonald, Alexander 


March 


17, 1834 




McQuade, John 


« 


" 1835 




McCool, Rev. Edward Jerome 


a 


a a 




McHenry, Dr. Bernard 


Dec. 


21, " 




McClelland, John 


tt 


a ti 




McDonough, James 


March 


17, 1836 




Murphy, Thomas 


it 


a ti 




McCusker, Francis 


a 


tt it 




McGirr, Francis S. 


a 


a tt 




Murphy, Dennis 


tt 


11 1837 




McGuire, Patrick 


tt 


a tt 





NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



121 



Members' Names. 



When Admitted. 



Highest Office h olden. 



McCroarkin, John 
McBurney, Rev. Samuel 
McBurney, Charles 
McHugh, Terence 
Maguire, Philip 
Mc Williams, Charles 
McElroy, Esq. Daniel 
Meany, John 
Moore, James 
Maher, Terence 
Morrison, John 
McGinley, Francis 
Mahony, John J. 
McNally, James 
McGee, Esq. Thomas D'Arcy 
McGowan, Dennis 
McGuire, Andrew 
Mooney, Thomas 
McKeon, Dennis 
McElroy, Charles 
McElroy, Hugh 
McMahan, Edward 
Meade, Thomas 
Murphy, James 
McGinley, John 
Madigan, William 
Murphy, John 
McMahan, James 
McDonald, Hugh 
McConologue, Michael 
Murphy Cornelius 
Murray, William 
McGuire, Hugh 
Murray, Patrick 
McConologue, Daniel 
McLernon, David 
McGinnisken, Bernard 
Murphy, James 
Martin, James 
McCann, Michael 
McCarthy, Charles J. 
McDavitt, John D. 
McGill, John D. 
McDonnell, Jackson 
McDonnell, Moore 
Murphy, George E. 
Manning, James 
McGowan, William S. 
11 



March 

June 

«< 

Sept. 
March 



Dec. 
March 



17, 1837 

19, " 

H <( 

18, " 
18, 1839 
17, 1841 

" 1842 



" 1843 

18, " 

18, 1844 
(< (i 

17, 1845 



1846 



1848 



ft 


20, 


It 


it 


17, 


1849 


(I 


18, 


1850 


te 


<« 


ft 


tt 


a 


a 


Dec. 


16, 


a 


March 


17, 


1852 



29, 



April 


5, 


•'< 


Sept. 
March 


20, 
17, 


a 
1853 


<< 


te 


a 


a 


c< 


1 854 


tt 


<< 


1855 


(i 


24, 


1856 


Sept. 


17, 
tt 


<< 
tt 


<( 


it 


tt 


March 


17, 


1857 



President. 



President. 



122 



NAMES OF MEMBERS, 



Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holdex. 


Matthews, Thomas A. 


March 


17, 1857 




Moore, Dennis 


(< 


it 6( 




McGrath, Philip 


a 


22, 1858 




Maguire, John M„ 


Sept. 


20, " 


President, 


McCormick, James 


March 


17, 1859 




Meagher, William F„ 


u 


St it 




Magrath, John 


June 


20, " 


President. 


Mehan, John 


<( 


<( tt 




Moriarty, John 


Sept. 


19, " 




Meagher, T. C. 


Dec. 


19, " 




McDavitt, Daniel 


K 


a tt 




McCawley, Cornelias 


<< 


it it 


Keeper Silrer Key, 


McCawley, Patrick 


(< 


tt it 




Meehan, William M. 


March 


17, 1860 




Murphy, John 


a 


tt a 




Munday, Patrick 


it 


tt tt 




Moran, John B. 


tt 


ft tt 




Mulloney, John 


tt 


a ft 




Manning, William 


it 


IS it 


Keeper Sih'er Key, 


Moylan, Richard 


tt 


it <( 




Mulrey, Timothy ~D. 


Dec. 


17, I860 




McGillycuddy, Dennis 


March 


24, 1862 




Mahoney, Timothy C. 


June 


19, " 


Secretary. 


McDermott, James 


March 


17, 1863 




McPartland, Owen 


«< 


a it 




McGrady, John H. 


a 


30, " 




McDonald, John W. 


a 


17, 1864 




Masterson, Michael J. 


June 


30, " 




McDonoagh, Michael 


Sept. 


19, " 




Miller, John 


March 


17, 1865 




Moore, Robert 


t< 


a n 




Mahan, John W. 


K 


tt tt 




Maloney, Patrick 


it 


17, 1866 




McEvoy, John F. 


tt 


tt tt 




McCafferty, Matthew J, 


May 


2, « 




McLaughlin, Francis 


March 


17, 1867 




Maguire, Thomas F. 


<( 


a it 




McAvoy, Frank J. 


June 


15, 1868 




McQuade, Henry 


March 


17, 1870 




Murray, Robert A. 


Dec. 


19, " 




Malone, Edward 


March 


17, 1871 




Maguire, Patrick 


Dec. 


18, " 




MacCorry, John Stuart 


March 


18, 1872 


Secretary. 


Murray, Thomas S. 


<( 


a a 




Magee, Henry F. 


a 


17, 1874 




Mahar, John D. 


tt 


«< a 




Maguinnis, Daniel J. 


May 


6, « 




McKecver, Henry F.. 


(i 


ii « 





NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



123 





Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holdex. 


McDonough, James A. 


March 


17, 1875 




Moriarty, John T. 


<< 


K (( 




McDonnell, John J. 


April 


14, " 




Moran, James A. 


« 


tt tt 




McDonald, Robert V. 


Dec. 


20, " 




Mullen, Michael J. 


March 


17, 1876 




Noble, John 


March 


17, 1737 




Neal, Daniel 


« 


tt n 




Nelson, James 


Oct. 


10, 1738 




Noble, Arthur 


July 


8, 1740 




Nugent, John 


May 


18, 1757 




Nash, James 


April 


14, 1772 




Noonan, James 


tt 


13, 1773 




Neil, Thomas 


Jan. 


8, 1793 




Neagle, David 


Sept. 


20, 1824 




Newport, Matthew 


Dec. 


17, 1827 




Nicholson, Henry- 


Sept. 


20, 1830 




Nugent, John 


March 


17, 1832 




Neagle, William 


tt 


23, 1846 




Noonan, Cornelius 


tt 


a n 




Norris, Maurice 


« 


17, 1847 




Norton, Patrick 


June 


20, 1864 




Neagle, Garrett 


March 


17, 1865 




Noonan, Daniel 


Sept. 


15, 1873 




Norton, Michael H. 


May 


6, 1874 




Norton, Michael 


Jan. 


4, 1875 




Orr, Isaac 


April 


11, 1737 




O'Brien, Thomas 


Dec. 


30, 1811 




O'Rourke, Patrick B. 


March 


17, 1813 




O'Brien, Daniel 


Dec. 


15, 1816 




O'Sullivan, Timothy 


March 


17 1818 




O'Neil, Henry 


fi 


" 1820 


* 


O'Connor, Maurice 


a 


18, 1822 




O'Meara, Thomas 


n 


17, 1824 




O'Brien, Malachi 


tt 


n n 




O'Neill, Michael ' 


tt 


" 1825 




O'Brien, Peter 


it 


tt u 




O'Brien, Edward 


Dec. 


18, 1826 




Otis, jr. Esq. George A. 


March 


17, 1827 




O'Leary, Jeremiah 


June 


18, " 




O'Neil, James 


Dec. 


17, " 




O'Callahan, Daniel 


March 


17, 1828 


President. 


O'Brien, Dennis W. 


tt 


15, 1830 


President. 


O'Flaherty, Rev. Thomas J. 


Sept. 


20, " 


President. 


O'Brien, John 


Dec. 


19, 1831 




D'Rourke, Thomas 


March 


17, 1835 





124 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holden 


O'Donnell, James 


Sept. 


19, 1836 




O'Neill Patrick A. 


March 


17, 1837 




O'Mahoney, Richard 


« 


u a 


Keeper Silver Key 


O'Neil, Patrick 


Dec. 


17, 1838 




O'Brien, Owen 


March 


18, 1839 




O'Brien, Esq. John M. 


<( 


17, 1842 




O'Keefe, Thomas F. 


<« 


(< « 




O'Sullivan, Capt. Eugene 


(< 


« « 




O'Donnell, Michael 


a 


" 1843 




O'Reilley, Rev. James 


a 


" 1845 




O'Reilley, Gilbert H. 


u 


" 1847 




O'Brien, Dennis 


(< 


" 1849 




O'Connor, Timothy 


ii 


26, " 




O'Rourke, Daniel 


Dec. 


17, " 




O'Brien, Rev. N. J. 


March 


18, 1850 




O'Brien, James 


a 


17, 1851 




O'Brien, Hugh 


Dec 


15, " 


President. 


O'Brien, James 


March 


29, 1852 




O'Brien, William H. 


Sept, 


21, 1857 




O'Dwyer, James 


March 


17, 1859 




O'Leary, James 


<« 


" 1860 




O'Neil, William B. 


it 


18, 1861 




O'Connor, Patrick 


Oct. 


7, 1867 




O'Doherty, Erancis 


March 


17, 1868 




Osborne, jr. John 


a 


" 1870 




O'Donnell, Stephen P. 


a 


" 1871 




O'Reilly, John Boyle 


Dec. 


18, " 




O'Hare, John 


«< 


16, 1872 




O'Callaghan, Cornelius H. 


Jan. 


4, 1875 


( 


O'Brien, James J. 


i< 


a u 




O'Dowd, Andrew A. 


March 


17, " 


<* 


Pelham, Peter 


March 


17, 1737 




Poyntz, John 


April 


11, " 




Powers, John 


Jan. 


9, 1739 




Patton, William 


April 


8, « 




Powers, Edmund 


«< 


14, 1747 




Pihoe, John 


July 


12, 1759 




Pelham, Henry 


Feb. 


18, 1774 




Powers, Peter 


Dec. 


30, 1811 




Powers, John 


a 


<< a 




Powers, Jeffrey 


March 


17, 1823 




Patten, Maurice 


Dec. 


19, 1825 




Power, E^q. Thomas 


March 


17, 1827 




Power, James 


x 


" 1828 




Phelan, Charles 


Dec. 


15, " 




Picket, Maurice 


March 


17, 1829 




Powell, John 


a 


« << 





NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



125 



Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holdex. 


Power, Patrick 


March 


17, 1829 




Powers, Nicholas 


t( 


tt it 




Power, 2d. Patrick 


a 


a tt 




Payne, Thomas 


Sept. 


20, 1830 


Secretary. 


Powell, Michael 


a 


19, 1831 




Park, Esq. John C. 


it 


a tt 


President. 


Phillips, Patrick 


Dec. 


21, 1835 


President. 


Phillips, John 


March 


17, 1837 




Powell, Michael 


it 


18, 1839 




Palmer, Edwin A. 


Dec. 


16, <« 


Vice-President. 


Phillips, John 


March 


17, 1840 




Pettigrew, Thomas 


Dec. 


17, 1849 




Powers, James T. 


Sept. 


16, 1850 




Pelletier, William S. 


March 


17, 1853 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Powers, Thomas 


a 


" 1855 




Power, Patrick 


a 


'•' 1860 




Price, Joseph Perry 


t: 


tt tt 




Power, Richard 


tt 


" 1863 




Palmer, jr. Edwin A. 


it 


" 1864 




Plunkett, Christopher 


it 


27, 1865 




Power, James 


June 


15, 1868 




Peard, William 


Dec. 


18, 1871 




Quig. John 


July 


11, 1738 




Quailes, Charles 


April 


11, 1769 


" 


Quinn, Michael 


Dec. 


30, 1811 




Quiglev, Edward 


March 


17, 1817 




Quin, Nicholas 


Dec. 


15, " 




Quigley, James 


March 


17, 1827 


Treasurer. 


Quigley, James 


June 


20, 1836 




Quin Ian, Jr. Daniel 


March 


18, 1850 




Quinn, William 


u 


27, 1865 




Quinliven, John G. 


Dec. 


18, 1871 




Richey, Francis 


April 


17, 1737 


Vice-President. 


Ryan, Kennedy 


Jan. 


9, 1739 




Richardson, Joseph 


April 


9, 1746 




Raney, John 


May 


18, 1757 




Reid, Andrew 


April 


9, 1765 




Rotch, Moses 


u 


<t tt 




Roach, Moses 


Dec. 


8, 1767 




Rowe, Matthew 


April 


12, 1768 




Ross, James 


Aug. 


8, 1769 




Reardon, Patrick 


Jan. 


31, 1786 




Ryan, Michael 


March 


.17, 1812 




Russell, John 


June 


20, 1814 




Redmond, Thomas 


March 


18, 1816 




Reynolds, John 


a 


17,1817 





126 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 





Members 1 Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Riley, Thomas 


Dec. 


15, 1817 




Riley, Michael 


Sept. 


21, 1818 


Vice-President. 


Ryan, Dennis 


March 


17, 1819 




Reid, William 


« 


" 1820 




Ryan, James 


tt 


18, 1822 


Keeper Silver Key. 


Ryan, Michael 


Sept. 


19, 1825 


Secretary. 


Ryan, James 


Dec. 


a n 




Reed, Henry 


u 


a a 




Ryan, Patrick 


March 


17, 1826 




Roche, Richard W. 


<« 


" 1827 


President. 


Roach, Matthew 


Dec. 


tt << 




Ryan, Nicholas W. 


June 


16, 1828 




Riley, James 


March 


17, 1831 


Treasurer. 


Rohinson, Thomas 


Dec. 


17, 1832 




Ryan, John 


March 


17, 1835 




Ryan, James 


«< 


x tt 




Riley, Esq. Patrick 


tt 


tt tt 




Kafferty, Bartholomew 


a 


" 1837 




Riley, James 


it 


tt t* 




Riley, jr. Michael 


it 


" 1838 




Rogers, Stephen J. 


Dec. 


tt .< 




Regan, Charles B. 


March 


18, 1839 




Rafferty, Patrick 


< < 


17, 1845 




Riley, James 


<( 


" 1846 




Ryan, Michael 


Dec. 


16, 1850 




Ryan, Edward 


March 


17, 1856 




Ryan, Edward F. 


Sept. 


19, 1859 




Reed, Patrick E. 


March 


17, 1860 




Ryder, Michael J. 


tt 


« « 




Ryan, John A. 


tt 


" 1863 




Reardon. Edmund 


<< 


" 1867 




Riley, Thomas 


tt 


ft tt 




Rogers, Joseph P. 


tt 


" 1868 




Rogers, Patrick H. 


tt 


tt tt 




Ring, Thomas F. 


(i 


" 1871 


Secretary. 


Roach, Frank 


tt 


" 1873 





St. Lawrence, Joseph 
Stewart. William 
Sloane, Samuel 
Sloane, Robert 
Sherrard, William 
Stet, James 
Savage, Isaac 
Stanley, David 
Shilera. James 
Savage, Robert 
Smith, James 



March 17, 1737 



Julv 


11, 


1738 


Oct. 


10, 


" 


Jan. 


9, 


1739 


April 


8, 


<< 


Oct. 


9, 


« 


a 


14, 


1741 


March 


9, 


1743 


Dec. 


9, 


1746 


April 


12, 


1748 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



127 



Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Shortwell, Valentine 


April 


14, 1761 






Smith, Joseph 


July 


14, " 






Smith, Peter 


April 


13, 1762 






Sloane, Robert 


Nov. 


9, " 






Stone, Edward 


Feb. 


10, 1767 






Scott, Matthew 


Aug. 


11, " 




. 


Sloane, Samuel 


(i 


8, 1769 






Sherlock, William 


June 


12, 1770 






Sullivan, Bartholomew 


Aug. 


9, 1772 






Scott. John 


Feb. 


9, 1773 






Stinson, Esq. John 


Oct. 


26, 1784 






Smith, Capt. James 


Dec. 


9, 1795 


Keeper Silver 


Key. 


Spannow, Samuel 


March 


17, 1802 






Selfridge, Thomas 0. 


a 


<( (< 


Vice-President 




Stoughton, Esq. John 


iC 


<< M 






Strong, Abraham 


Dec. 


17, 1810 


Treasurer. 




Swancy, John 


H 


19, 1814 






Shea, Peter 


March 


18, 1816 






Shea, Philip 


« 


a « 






Shea, Thomas 


cc 


(C (< 






Shea, Richard 


Dec. 


15, « 






Sinnot, John 


Sept. 


21, 1818 






Smith, Esq. Henry B. 


March 


17, 1825 


Keeper Silver 


Key. 


Sullivan, Hon. William 


Sept. 


19, " 






Sullivan, Roger 


Dec. 


18, 1826 


Secretary. 




Sharp, Richard 


March 


17, 1827 






Sullivan, James 


n 


« (( 






Sonney, James 


M 


" 1828 






Sweeney, Patrick 


June 


16, " 






Smith, Patrick 


>< 


i< a 






Short, Thomas W. 


March 


17, 1829 






Smith, William 


<< 


i< << 






Sharkey, Patrick 


(« 


cc (< 


President. 




Smith, Patrick 


Dec. 


21, " 






Smith, John G. 


« 


a (t 






Smith, Dr. Samuel H. 


« 


20, 1830 


Keeper Silver 


Key. 


Sheridan, William 


March 


17, 1831 






Short, Patrick 


Sept. 


19, " 






Swords, John 


Dec. 


k t* 






Stronjr, Michael 


« 


17, 1832 






Smith, John 


March 


18, 1833 






Sullivan, Sylvester L. 


« 


17, 1836 






Sharkey, Felix 


a 


<< (i 






Salmon, John 


{( 


« << 






Smith, John 


(C 


" 1837 






Sullivan, John 


(( 


a « 






Scnllv, John 


(t 


18, 1839 






Smith, John T. 


t« 


17, 1840 







128 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Members' Names. 



When Admitted. Highest Office hold en. 



Spring, Edward 
Sullivan, Florence 
Spring, John 
Spring, Arthur 
Stevens, John 
Shaw, John M. 
Stafford, James 
Smith, Charles A. 
Sproul, Andrew 
Sinnott, Peter 
Sullivan, James 
Stanton, Patrick 
Scott, James 
Smith, Timothy H. 
Scanlon, Michael 
Stanton, John 
Sullivan, P. R. 
Sweeney, Charles E. 
Stimpson, Patrick J. 
Shay, Thomas 
Sullivan, Patrick F. 
Sullivan, Richard T. 
Shea, Patrick F. 
Santry, John P. 

Thomas, Archibald 
Tracy, Patrick 
Toler, William 
Tabb, James 
Temple, Esq. Robert 
Thompson, John 
Tanner, John 
Thompson, John 
Tabb, Nicholas 
Thompson, Benjamin 
Thompson, John 
Tufts, John 
Timoney, Dennis 
Thompson, John 
Timoney, John 
Toohey, Roderick 
Talbot, James 
Torpy, Timothy 
Tucker, John C. 
Tuohey, Edward 
Taggart, John C. . 
Tallas, Michael 
Tent, James 



March 
Dec. 


17, 1841 
20, " 




« 


15,1845 




a 


a tt 




March 


17, 1846 




a 


25, 1850 




a 


17, 1851 




tt 


tt a 




<< 


29, 1852 




Dec. 


17, 1855 




« 


a a 




tt 


tt tt 




Sept. 


19, 1859 




March 


17, 1860 




a 


26, " 




n 


a a 




a 


17, 1862 




ct 


" 1865 




June 


15, 1868 




April 


5, 1869 




Dec. 


18, 1871 




March 


17, 1873 




June 


16, " 




Dec. 


20, 1875 




March 


17, 1737 




April 


11, " 




July 


11, 1738 




April 


8, 1739 




Julv 


8, 1740 




Oct. 


14, " 




tt 


13, 1741 




April 


9, 1745 




May, 


1756 


Treasurer. 


a 


18, 1757 




a 


a a 




Oct. 


12, 1773 


Keeper Silver Key 


March 


17, 1823 


Vice-President. 


a 


" 1825 




Dec. 


18, 1826 




a 


15, 1828 




March 


17, 1829 




n 


<< <( 




Sept. 


19, 1831 


President. 


March 


17, 1835 




a 


" 1837 




K 


" 1840 




June 


15, " 





NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



129 





Members' Names. 


When Admitted. 


Highest Office holden. 


Tobin, John 


March 17, 1841 




Taylor, Daniel 


Dec. 20, " 




Timmins, William 


March 18, 1850 




Trainer, Bernard S. 


June 19, 1854 




Tully, Denis H. 


Dec. 21, 1857 




Tallon, James H. 


June 20, 1859 


President. 


Twohig, William J. 


March 26, 1860 




Twomy, Edward 


17, 1866 




Tallon, Thomas A. 


" 1867 


Vice-President. 


Vincent, William 


April 19, 1744 




Walsh, Nathaniel 


March 17, 1737 




Walker, Patrick 


t( (4 a 




Whitley, John 


July 11, 1738 




Williams, Peter 


Oct. 10, " 




Wood, Roger 


June 8, 1742 




Willis, Charles 


April 10, 1760 




Wier, Robert 


Oct 14, 1766 


Keeper Silver Key 


Wier, David 


Dec. 8, 1767 




Wilson, Capt. Alexander 


13, 1768 




Wright, Francis 


Oct. 26, 1784 


Vice-President. 


Wier, jr. Robert 


Dec. 11,1792 


Vice-President. 


Woods, William 


March 17, 1794 




Whitman, B. 


" 1797 




Wyer, David 


« " 1802 




Ward, John 


Dec. 1806 




Walsh, William 


30, 1811 




Welch, Walter 


Sept. 20, 1813 




Wright, James M. 


19, 1814 




Wilson, James 


Dec. 19, " 




Wilson, James 


18,1815 




Wade, Francis 


March 18, 1816 




Whelan, Philip 


17,1817 




Walsh, William 


June 15, 1818 




Walsh, Richard 


Dec. 21, " 




Walsh, John 


March 17, 1820 


Secretary. 


Whinning, Alexander 


18,1822 




Weir, Samuel 


" 17, 1824 




Walker, Samuel 


Sept. 19, 1825 




Williamson, James F. 


March 17, 1826 




Watson, John 


" 1827 




Williams, Michael 


u a « 




Wheeler, John 


" " 1829 




Whelan, Martin 


Dec. 19, 1831 




Woods, John 


March 18, 1833 




Ward, Thomas 


" 17, 1834 




Wallace, Thomas 


Dec. 21, 1835 





130 



NAMES OF MEMBERS. 



Members' Names. 



When Admitted. 



Highest Office holden. 



White, John 
Ward, Michael 
Wise, John 
Winn, Farrall 
White, William 
Walsh, Walter J. 
Wilson, Alexander 
Walsh, Richard 
Whelan, John 
Wright, Hon. Isaac H. 
Walsh, Richard 
Wilson, William A. 
Warner, Richard 
Whelan, James 
White, John 
Ward, Michael J. 
Waters, Patrick J. 
Wright, James W. 
Walsh, Peter D. 
Walker, John B. 
Welby, Lance D» 
Williams, Frederic 
Wheltoo, Patrick J. 

Young, Thomas 
Young, John 
Young, Matthew 
Young, Edward 



March 17, 1837 



" 1839 

" 1840 
it u 

it <( 

" 1841 
20, " 
18, 1843 
20, 1848 

17, 1849 

18, 1850 
29, 1852 

It ft 

20, " 
26, 1860 

16, 1862 

17, 1864 

18, 1872 

it a 

31, 1873 
17, 1876 



Sept. 
u 

March 

Sept. 

March 



Sept. 
March 
June 
March 



March 17, 1819 
" " 1820 

tt tt tt 

Sept. 18, 1843 



Secretary. 

Keeper Silver Key. 





M vf Wxmnt ffitmbw 



James Barrett. 
William H. Bingham. 
John G. Blake. 
Dennis Bonner. 
Michael H. Bradley. 
George R. Brine. 
William H. Brine. 
John Broderick. 
Patrick E. Burns. 
Thomas Butler. 

Thomas Carberry. 
William Cashen. 
James Collins. 
Patrick Collins. 
Patrick A. Collins. 
John Conlon. 
Christopher A. Connor. 
Bernard Corr. 
James F. Cotter. 
George J. Coyle. 
Robert Cox. 
John C. Crowley. 
John Curtin. 

John A. Daly. 
Patrick Denvir. 
William Denvir. 
John Divver. 
John Divver. 
Henry Doherty. 
Manasseas P. Doherty. 
Michael Doherty. 



Charles T. Dolan. 
Thomas Dolan. 
Michael H. Donahoe. 
Patrick Donahoe. 
Charles F. Donnelly. 
Thomas Dooley. 
John F. Driscoll. 
Roger Drury. 
Mark Dowlins\ 



Joseph D. Fallon. 
James F. Farley. 
John Farley. 
Daniel G. Finnerty, 
Matthew Foley. 

John Galvin. 
Thomas J. Gargan. 
Michael J. Gately. 
David Grady. 
Patrick F. Griffin. 
Patrick R. Guiney. 

Patrick T. Hanley. 
Daniel G. Harkins. 
Edward Harkins. 
Patrick Harkins. 
Patrick J. Hastings. 
John J. Hayes. 
William Hyland. 
David C. Hennessey. 
John Howard. 
John Howard. 



132 



LIST OF PRESENT MEMBERS. 



Michael H. Keenan. 
Hugh Kelly. 
John Kelly. 
John J. Kelly. 



James A. Lappen. 
Edward Leary. 
Daniel Lee. 
Patrick Lee. 
John Lenehan. 
Martin Lennon. 
Thomas H. Lynch. 



John Stuart MacCorry. 
Henry F. Magee. 
Daniel J. Maguinnis. 
John M. Maguire. 
Patrick Maguire. 
Thomas F. Maguire. 
John D. Mahar. 
Edward Malone. 
William Manning. 
Frank J. McAvoy. 
Matthew J. McCafferty. 
James McCormick. 
John W. McDonald. 
Robert V. McDonald. 
John J. McDonnell. 
James A. McDonough. 
John F. McEvoy. 
Henry F. McKeever. 
William McKenney. 
David McLernon. 
Henry McQuade. 
Robert Moore. 
James A. Moran. 
John B. Moran. 
John T. Moriarty. 
Robert A. Murray. 
Thomas S. Murray; 



Daniel Noonan. 
Michael Norton.. 
Michael H. Norton. 

Dennis W. O'Brien. 
Hugh O'Brien. 
James J. O'Brien. 
Cornelius H. O'Callaghan. 
Stephen P. O'Donnell. 
Andrew A. O'Dowd. 
John O'Hare. 
John Boyle O'Reilly. 
John Osborne, Jr. 

Edwin A, Palmer. 
William Peard. 
Patrick Phillips. 
James Power. 
Patrick Power. 
Richard Power. 

Edmund Reardon. 
Thomas Riley. 
Thomas F. Ring. 
Frank Roach. 
Joseph P. Rogers. 
Patrick H. Rogers. 
Edward Ryan. 

John P. Santry. 
James Scott. 
Patrick Sharkey. 
Thomas Shea. 
Patrick J. Stimpson. 
Patrick F. Sullivan. 
Richard T. Sullivan. 
Charles E. Sweeney. 

Thomas A. Tallon. 

John B. Walker. 
Patrick J. Whelton. 
Frederic Williams. 




M $i IWtes 



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1737-1876. 



12 



LIST OF OFFICERS. 



135 





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